RE: [xwiki-users] Groovy tutorial in dev guide

Fairly said, I'm sure Guillaume would object - given that it's not exactly pure in that sense. As to why the error happens for copy-paste, from what I can see this removes important linefeeds (if you copy-paste from the same page, you'll see this when you paste into a standard ASCII editor, eg notepad); the first two lines join and the Groovy parser tries to process "def xwiki def context" as one instruction instead of two instructions. The only difference now is that the ";" forces the parser to start a new instruction, so "def xwiki; def context" is processed as two separate instructions. IIRC, some platforms treat linefeed differently, so this may not even be a problem if you use *nix to copy the text. Perhaps something could be done to make the {code} put hard breaks between lines though? Then this change (or even the warning) wouldn't be needed. -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Massol [mailto:vincent@massol.net] Sent: 24 April 2007 13:28 To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Groovy tutorial in dev guide Hi Brandon, On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Esbach, Brandon wrote: I see you've modified the page on xwiki.org, cool. However I know for sure that Groovy purists will not like the change as they consider that Groovy code shouldn't have any semicolon (";") at all. I know Guillaume Laforge wouldn't like it for example... Thus I think we shouldn't add them, especially as they're not necessary. I don't understand why a copy paste wouldn't work. In any case I'd prefer a warning rather than having to make the code less good. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent