2010/8/3 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > On 07/07/2010 12:16, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 07/07/2010 11:36, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >>> It is not mentioned there that Java language keywords are >>> also reserved. >> >> Yes it is. Section 1.19 in the EL 2.2 spec. >> >>> 3) I agree, that it is possible to read the spec in your way, >>> so it makes sense to have such a check, >>> but I think that there must be a way to turn it off. >> >> For 6.0.x, I have no issue with providing an option to disable the check >> since Tomcat 6.0.x up to this point has been not been fully enforcing >> the spec. For Tomcat 7, which has only had a single beta release, I see >> no need to provide the same option. > > As much as it pains me to do this it looks like the option to disable is > going to be required in Tomcat 7 as well to pass the JSP TCK since the > TCK appears to be using invalid identifiers. I'll be raising a challenge > with Oracle about that shortly. >
I think the language authors did not intend to be that strict. As I already wrote, >> 2) There is a separate chapter "Reserved Words" in EL spec, >> which explicitly lists words that are forbidden as identifiers. Also, "enum" was not a keyword several years ago, so strictly speaking JSP 2.0/Servlet 2.4 web applications deployed on Tomcat 7 should be allowed to use it. (Just as a reason to make it configurable) Let's see how this is clarified. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
