[GROOVY-6593] Operators other than dot do not support carriage returns

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0-beta-1
• Component/s: syntax
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Antoine
• Created: 20/Feb/14 08:58
• Updated: 05/Apr/14 00:00
• Resolved: 05/Mar/14 04:39

Description

In Groovy, you can add carriage returns before the dot operator. For instance:

doSomething()
    .somethingElse()
    .collect { ... }

But with the safe navigation operator or the spread operator, it does not work.

doSomething()
    ?.somethingElse() // does not compile, "unexpected token ?."
    ?.collect { ... }

doSomething()
    *.somethingElse() // does not compile, "unexpected token *."
    .collect { ... }