Semicolon is not inferred after a XML node sequence literal

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scalac reports error in the following code;

object Obj {
  val s1 = <a/><b/>
  println("hi")
}

value println is not a member of scala.xml.NodeBuffer possible cause: maybe a semicolon is missing before `value println'?

When <a/></b> is either replaced with <a/> alone or enclosed in parentheses or curly braces, code is compiled without error. Entering the semicolon as suggested also allows compilation to proceed.

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-9027?orig=1
Reporter: Rafał Krzewski (rkrzewski)
Affected Versions: 2.10.4, 2.11.4
Other Milestones: 2.11.5

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@retronym said:
This is intentional (if not ideal), as XML syntax allows newlines within NodeSeq literals.

:paste
// Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish)

<a/>
<b/>
<c/>


// Exiting paste mode, now interpreting.

res0: scala.xml.NodeBuffer = ArrayBuffer(<a/>, <b/>, <c/>)

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@som-snytt said:
But it should not consume whitespace if it looks ahead and detects the end of XML mode.

scala/scala#4185

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@som-snytt said:
This issue sounded very familiar FSR. Why did I use the same example?

scala> :pa
// Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish)

object X {
  val s = <a/>
          <b/>
          <c/>

  println("ack")
}

// Exiting paste mode, now interpreting.

defined object X

scala> X
ack
res0: X.type = X$@17f62e33

scala> object X {
     |   val s = <a/><b/>                                           <- spaces are harmless?
     |   println("ack")
     | }
defined object X

scala> X
ack
res1: X.type = X$@3da05287

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@som-snytt said:
Happy to close again if I broke something.

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Andrzej Jozwik (ajozwik) said (edited on Dec 4, 2014 8:12:48 AM UTC):
The sbt from version 0.13.7 uses scala compiler to parse the whole file. The problem is, that if you split the file statement by statement and send to the compiler - all will be OK. If you send whole file - you will receive the compilation error.
See:
sbt/sbt#1606

The test from repl:

scala> :pa
// Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish)

object A {

val a = <a/>

val b = <c/><d/>
}

// Exiting paste mode, now interpreting.

defined object A

And:

scala> :pa
// Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish)

object A {

val a = <a/><c/>

val b = <b/>
}

// Exiting paste mode, now interpreting.

<console>:5: error: ';' expected but 'val' found.
val b = <b/>

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@gkossakowski said:
Fixed by scala/scala#4185

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@gkossakowski said:
Backported to 2.10.x in: scala/scala#4186