PROPOSAL: open and close brace optional for single statement try, catch, finally, method declaration

Neal Gafter neal at gafter.com
Mon Mar 30 07:25:09 PDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Tom Hawtin <Thomas.Hawtin at sun.com> wrote:
> This is similar to the dangling-else ambiguity.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_else

Perhaps, but the Java grammar does not have a dangling-else ambiguity.
 The grammar was carefully written to be unambiguous.  This proposal
would make the grammar ambiguous.

Regards,
Neal



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