[GROOVY-65] parser to handle ; and newlines better which could help reduce ambiguity

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-2
• Component/s: lexer, parser
• Assignee: Bob Paulin
• Reporter: James Strachan
• Created: 04/Dec/03 09:13
• Updated: 11/Dec/03 08:06
• Resolved: 11/Dec/03 08:06

Description

The following should barf

x = 1 y = 2

we should enforce ; to separate statements on 1 line. e.g.

x = 1; y = 2

also using ; or newline as a separator will help us make field declarations clear

class Foo

{ int x; y }

or

class Foo {
int x
y
}