[GROOVY-813] no assignments to literals

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-2
• Component/s: class generator, parser, syntax
• Assignee: James Strachan
• Reporter: Dierk König
• Created: 09/Apr/05 12:02
• Updated: 29/May/05 04:45
• Resolved: 29/May/05 04:45

Description

Definitely! Whether we can do this inside the Antlr grammar, or we add
a validation check to the Groovy AST verifier (which has a few checks
in it already) I don't much mind, but we definitely need to outlaw
these examples.

On 9 Apr 2005, at 13:21, Dierk Koenig wrote:
> Currently Groovy allows
>
> 'aaa' = 'bbb'
> "aaa" = "bbb"
> /aaa/ = /bbb/
> null = new Object()
> 0 = 1
> 0f = 1f
> \u0000 = \u0001
>
> // questionable
> [] = new Object()
> [:] = new Object()
> 1..2 = new Object()
>
> this makes it harder to write safe boolean tests, e.g.
> if (null == a)
> instead of
> if (a == null)
> to mitigate the risk of a missing =, e.g
> if (null = a)
> should not compile.
>
> I think this should be possible by changing
> only the grammar file.
>
> cheers
> Mittie
>
>

James
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