[GROOVY-46] Parser to support method declarations in scripts

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-3
• Component/s: parser
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: James Strachan
• Created: 31/Oct/03 03:59
• Updated: 16/Jan/04 14:00
• Resolved: 16/Jan/04 14:00

Description

When creating scripts, it'd be cool to be able to create methods in the script. e.g.

foo {
println
}

[1, 2, 3].each

{ foo(it) }

This kinda thing might impact the parser implementation somewhat. The AST can handle the above right now - we just need the parser to handle it. e.g. in ASTBuilder the datatypeDeclaration() method currently checks for class, interface or statement.

Making it detect a method declaration and calling module.addMethod(MethodNode) would fix this.

Though I'm leaving it up to you if this is gonna be easy & possible