Re: groovysh easily breaks

Sistemas Jaguar <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:46:57 +0000
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On Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 at 6:26 AM, Christopher Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> The number after the colon indicates that the shell sees unclosed constructs such as brackets, braces, or parentheses and is waiting for you to close them before executing.
>
> I did not know about :c, which is great to have!
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 07:06 Sistemas Jaguar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If an incorrect command is entered the REPL stops working:
>>
>> Groovy Shell (4.0.26, JVM: 1.8.0_432)
>> Type ':help' or ':h' for help.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> groovy:000> System.getProperty("java.version")
>> ===> 1.8.0_432
>> groovy:000> println "Hello"
>> Hello===> null
>>
>> groovy:000> a=[
>> groovy:001> println "Hello"
>>
>> groovy:002> System.getProperty("java.version")
>> groovy:003> a=[:]
>> groovy:004>
>>
>> After 'a=[' other than commands (:command syntax), the REPL seens to break requiring a restart, which is frustrating and time consuming to say the least.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Linux kiwi 6.1.0-34-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.135-1 (2025-04-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux

My bad, thought I had tested by closing the command at a new line (i.e. by means of ':]').
Did not know about ':c', no doubt it will be very useful.

Thanks for your help!