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 <sjag...@proton.me> 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
>
