Re: Groovy beta 10 released! (+JSR Early Access)

On 28 Feb 2005, at 23:30, John Zoetebier wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:22, Guillaume Laforge wrote:
>> This release also includes an Early Access version of the JSR parser.
>> This is disabled by default; so that "Classic Groovy" is used out of
>> the box.
>
> Hi Guillaume,
> What is the new JSR parser doing compared with the current parser ?

The biggest change is that its a self documenting parser...

http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/Chapter18Syntax.html
http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/GroovyRecognizer.html

which helps us to specify the language. Though to see what this means  
as an end user here's a description of the changes...

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Migration+From+Classic+to+JSR+syntax? 
refresh=1

James
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