Hi there, perhaps this is a known or well-understand issue, but worth reporting IMHO (not sure whether worth a ticket; let me please know should I create one for this):
=== 281 ocs /tmp> <q.groovy class q { def foo(val) { 10.times { println "Essentially anything..." println "... can be here, the longer this code, the worse" else println "This is wrong, but see the error report!" } } } 282 ocs /tmp> /usr/local/groovy-2.4.17/bin/groovyc q.groovy org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: q.groovy: 9: unexpected token: else @ line 9, column 7. else println "This is wrong, but see the error report!" ^ 1 error 283 ocs /tmp> /usr/local/groovy-3.0.3/bin/groovyc q.groovy org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: q.groovy: 3: Unexpected input: '{'; Expecting RBRACE @ line 3, column 14. 10.times { ^ 1 error 284 ocs /tmp> === All the best, OC