[GROOVY-3300] Disallow try statements without catch or finally block

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6-rc-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.6-rc-2, 1.5.8, 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: Peter Niederwieser
• Created: 19/Jan/09 12:52
• Updated: 20/Jan/09 01:31
• Resolved: 19/Jan/09 16:36

Description

Unlike Java, Groovy allows try statements without a catch or finally block:

class TryWithoutCatchOrFinally {
static void main(args) {
try

{ println "hi" }

}
}

Execution of such a try statement just executes the try block (it doesn't swallow exceptions). The following discussion seems to come to the conclusion that it would be better to follow Java and raise a syntax error: http://www.nabble.com/Try-statement-without-catch-or-finally-block-td21542131.html