RFR: 8027682: javac wrongly accepts semicolons in package and import decls

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 21:14:38 GMT, Archie L. Cobbs <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the comments.
> 
> Agree that smarter error checking for the likely scenario of a spurious semi-colon would be an improvement.
> 
> I'm agnostic on what would be "best" - just trying to address some stale bugs.
> 
> If there is uncertainty about what the spec should be, but also no action, that obviously paralyzes progress. What do you guys recommend we do?
> 
> This bug will have its 10th birthday in October :)

I would suggest to go ahead with a solution to report and ignore excess semicolons, since changing JLS is a bigger deal that cannot be done here.   And even if we change JLS going forward, a solution to "report and ignore" excess semicolons might be worth back-porting.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12448