[GRADLE-1331] Forbid use of labels in build scripts Created: 21/Jan/11  Updated: 04/Jan/13  Resolved: 08/May/12

Status: Resolved
Project: Gradle
Affects Version/s: 0.9.1
Fix Version/s: 1.1-rc-1

Type: New Feature
Reporter: Peter Niederwieser Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 1


 Description   

It seems to be a common mistake to write "foo: bar" instead of "foo = bar" in build scripts. For example:

compile("junit:junit:4.8.2") {
  transitive: false // should be: transitive = false
}

Since Groovy interprets "transitive:" as a label, it won't complain and the error will be hard to find. People are used to the "foo: bar" syntax because Gradle makes heavy use of named parameters.

To avoid this trap, we could write an AST transform that forbids the use of labels in build scripts.


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