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

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 30.03.2009 16:25, Neal Gafter schrieb:
>
> Perhaps, but the Java grammar does not have a dangling-else ambiguity.

Neal, I don't understand. Please explain why Java does not have the 
dangling-else ambiguiaty.

    if (..)
        if (..)
            ...;
    else
        ...;

is in fact:

    if (..) {
        if (..)
            ...;
        else
            ...;
    }

and not:

    if (..) {
        if (..)
            ...;
    }
    else
        ...;
   
Following "solution" should be a compile error:

    if (..)
        if (..)
            ...;
        ;
    else
        ...;

-Ulf