But one of its despots, five years after the language was first released, changed the syntax to make a catch or finally clause compulsory, e.g Are you the

But one of its despots, five years after the language was first released, changed the syntax to make a catch or finally clause compulsory, e.g Are you the person who believes the Groovy developers are personally working to invalidate your web tutorials so they can discredit your fork of the language? Lest HN think I'm being ungenerous, please read http://groovy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Blog01 http://groovy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Blog01 , which features similar language regarding "despots". Of course, Groovy also differentiates itself from Guava by having a dedicated language syntax, which is no doubt why the cartel don't want to standardize it. If it was standardized, they couldn't make some random blogger's sample code stop working by suddenly requiring all try-statements to have an empty finally clause.