[GROOVY-5181] "static final" constructors should be a Compile-time error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.5, 2.0-beta-2
• Component/s: class generator
• Assignee: Roshan Dawrani
• Reporter: Daniel Ferrin
• Created: 08/Dec/11 22:13
• Updated: 24/Dec/11 03:08
• Resolved: 09/Dec/11 04:26

Description

Some modifiers on the constructor should be disallowed instead of being passed to the init method. For example "static":

class Foo {
static final Foo()

{ println 'it works!' }

}

This creates a method <init> with modifiers of 0x19, which are static public and final. Not valid for a constructor. This should bomb at compile time instead of generating bytecode.