[GROOVY-9433] grammar ambiguity with ternary expression being confused with safe indexing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1, 3.0.2
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: Paul King
• Created: 03/Mar/20 04:36
• Updated: 09/Mar/20 03:05
• Resolved: 04/Mar/20 14:19

Description

The following works fine in 2.5.9 and 3.0.1:

false ? ['abc'] : ['def']

but the following onyl works in 2.5.9:

true ? ["abc"] as String[] : new String[0]

In 3.0.1 it gives:

groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: abc for class: java.lang.Boolean