Call to defender method with missing return keyword hangs the JVM

[Per Rovegård]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Robert Field <Robert.Field at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/11 3:52 PM, Per Rovegård wrote:
>>
>> In the defender/default implementation of sayHi, I assumed that the
>> compiler would infer that a value needs to be returned (like with
>> closures). And the compiler indeed doesn't complain about the missing
>> "return" keyword.
>
> I don't believe this is the current plan.  I think this is a straight-up
> compiler bug.
>
> Thanks for reporting this (no it isn't known)

No problem! Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but wouldn't
it be nice to allow expression syntax in this case, to be consistent
with lambdas?

-- Per