Bug 42243

Summary: Incorrect syntax diagnosis for assert in source 1.3 mode
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet>
Component: CoreAssignee: David Audel <david_audel>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: 3.3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Philipe Mulet CLA 2003-08-29 05:25:49 EDT
Build 3.0M3

The following source compiled in 1.3 source mode is flagged with a syntax error 
as expected (assert isn't a keyword in 1.3 mode), but the error diagnosis is 
rather misleading.

public class X {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		assert true;
	}
}
--> Syntax error on token "assert", assert expected	!?
Comment 1 David Audel CLA 2004-05-11 08:00:22 EDT
Post 3.0
Comment 2 David Audel CLA 2007-06-29 06:48:07 EDT
Reopen
Comment 3 David Audel CLA 2007-06-29 06:50:00 EDT
Cannot be reproduced with 3.3. Fixed in a previous build.

Test added
  ComplianceDiagnoseTest#test0053()