That is the current expected behaviour. The grammar currently doesn't support slashy syrings straight after println unless you add the parentheses. I can't recall the rationale just now. Perhaps it's something we could look at in the Parrot parser - or an attempt to add it might make it clear what the rationale is/was.
Cheers, Paul On 8 Dec 2016 5:53 AM, "Imholz, John J." <imho...@musc.edu> wrote: > This message was sent securely by MUSC <http://www.musc.edu/> > > This one line script fails for me: > > ---BOF--- > > println /stuff/ > > ---EOF--- > > > > Causes an error: org.codehaus.groovy.control. > MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: > > /tmp/println.groovy: 2: unexpected token: @ line 2, column 1. > > > > I find using the slashes is helpful when generating some debugging output. > > > > jji > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was secured via TLS by *MUSC <http://www.musc.edu>*.