[GROOVY-6167] Generics: within a single declaration, generic type definition order matters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0, 2.4.0-beta-3
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0-alpha-4, 3.0.0-alpha-3, 2.5.0-rc-3
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: Davide Cavestro
• Created: 23/May/13 07:07
• Updated: 26/Jul/18 04:38
• Resolved: 17/May/18 16:57

Description

The following is valid Java code, but the groovyc fails complaining
unable to resolve class X

public class Foo<T extends List<X>, X extends Number>{}

while changing the generic type definition order it works

public class Foo<X extends Number, T extends List<X>>{}