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

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Tom Hawtin wrote:
> Glenn A. Marshall wrote:
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> BTW: Does anyone have a good suggestion for tool and basic Java grammar 
> to check that syntax modifications are still parseable?
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Besides the hand-written recursive descent parser in javac living over in

    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/langtools

the Compiler Grammar project

    http://openjdk.java.net/projects/compiler-grammar/

produced an ANTLR grammar that may be more amenable to checking.

-Joe