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Fix removeSemicolons() corrupting dollar-slashy strings, escaped triple quotes and for headers - #3170

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Follow-up to #2780. The scanner still removed semicolons that are part of the program:

  • inside dollar-slashy strings ($/ ... /$), the idiomatic way to embed JS/SQL in Groovy, same use case as removeSemicolons() should not be applied to multiline strings in groovy #2780
  • after an escaped triple quote (\""" / \''') inside a multiline string, which flipped the scanner state for the rest of the literal
  • at the end of a line inside a multi-line for (init; cond; update) header, producing code that no longer compiles

Rewrite the boolean-flag scanner as an explicit mode state machine and protect only semicolons whose innermost open bracket is a for header, so semicolons in closures passed as arguments are still removed. Plain slashy strings remain unsupported (ambiguous with division without a real lexer) and this is documented.

Output is byte-identical to the previous implementation on all 163 files in testlib/src/main/resources. Adds a fast StepHarness unit test.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MTr23zHsJ17K1kvSQYF4AH

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Pankraz76 and others added 2 commits November 7, 2026 12:16
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Follow-up to diffplug#2780. The scanner still removed semicolons that are part of
the program:

- inside dollar-slashy strings (`$/ ... /$`), the idiomatic way to embed
  JS/SQL in Groovy, same use case as diffplug#2780
- after an escaped triple quote (`\"""` / `\'''`) inside a multiline
  string, which flipped the scanner state for the rest of the literal
- at the end of a line inside a multi-line `for (init; cond; update)`
  header, producing code that no longer compiles

Rewrite the boolean-flag scanner as an explicit mode state machine and
protect only semicolons whose innermost open bracket is a `for` header,
so semicolons in closures passed as arguments are still removed. Plain
slashy strings remain unsupported (ambiguous with division without a
real lexer) and this is documented.

Output is byte-identical to the previous implementation on all 163 files
in testlib/src/main/resources. Adds a fast StepHarness unit test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MTr23zHsJ17K1kvSQYF4AH
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