Hi, I reported bug metioned in the subject as I was not able to ascertain from the web if what I am facing is a consequence of desired intent.
Paul King <https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=paulk> suggested to check issue with the mailing list. Here I am following the suggestion. Using groovy shell to execute the following groovy script snippet fails at compilation phase when executing the script through java. I am using Jre1.7 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception, IllegalAccessException { Object evaluate = new GroovyShell().evaluate("\"abcd\".length() == .34"); System.out.println("result: " + evaluate); } In the above snippet, If I replace *.34* with *0.34* then the script execution works as expected. Exception reported is as follows Exception in thread "main" org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: Script1.groovy: 1: unexpected token: . @ line 1, column 20."abcd".length() == .34 ^ 1 error at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.failIfErrors(ErrorCollector.java:311) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addFatalError(ErrorCollector.java:151) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addError(ErrorCollector.java:121) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addError(ErrorCollector.java:133) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit.addError(SourceUnit.java:332) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.transformCSTIntoAST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:226) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.parseCST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:192) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit.parse(SourceUnit.java:230) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$1.call(CompilationUnit.java:186) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToSourceUnits(CompilationUnit.java:968) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:633) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:609) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:586) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:352) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.access$300(GroovyClassLoader.java:85) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader$5.provide(GroovyClassLoader.java:321) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader$5.provide(GroovyClassLoader.java:318) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.memoize.ConcurrentCommonCache.getAndPut(ConcurrentCommonCache.java:147) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:316) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parseClass(GroovyShell.java:548) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parse(GroovyShell.java:560) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.evaluate(GroovyShell.java:444) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.evaluate(GroovyShell.java:483) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.evaluate(GroovyShell.java:454) at groovytest.Testtest.main(Testtest.java:19) Please let me know if this problem will be fixed, if so which release and when is the release date. -- Regards Dyutimoy Sarkar
