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Paul King commented on GROOVY-8131: ----------------------------------- Currently, this is by design rather than a bug. Groovy treats the semicolon as a statement separator not statement terminator like in Java. As another example, inside the collect below, there is an expression returning 4 then an expression returning the result +3 (which is just 3) and for Groovy there is an implicit return of the last expression: {code} assert [3] == [1].collect { 4 + 3 } {code} > Statement continued onto next line is flagged when first character is "=" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: GROOVY-8131 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8131 > Project: Groovy > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Compiler > Affects Versions: 2.4.5 > Environment: Ubuntu Linux > `uname -a`: > Linux biostar 4.4.0-69-generic #90-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 16 16:52:31 UTC 2017 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Reporter: Richard Elkins > Priority: Minor > Attachments: grbug.java > > > Source code attached (grbug.java). > `javac` v8 compiles variable declarations s1, s2, and s3 successfully. > `groovyc` flags s3: > "unexpected token: = @ line 9, column 3." -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)