A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
The current grammar for try-with-resources can be improved. If multiple resources of the same type are to be opened, the grammar is inefficient.

JUSTIFICATION :
In other situations, like for (;;) or with "normal" variable declarations, multiple declarations can be performed in one statement.
It is unexpected for a language user that in the situation of try-with-resources this is not possible.
Also, I cannot see a justification from a language consistency point of view not to do it.


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
The following two statements are equal:

try (
        final InputStream i1 = new FileInputStream(args[0]);
        final InputStream i2 = new FileInputStream(args[1])) {
}

try (
        final InputStream i1 = new FileInputStream(args[0]), i2 = new FileInputStream(args[1])) {
}
ACTUAL -
The statement
try (
        final InputStream i1 = new FileInputStream(args[0]), i2 = new FileInputStream(args[1])) {
}
does not compile.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
import java.io.*;

/** Demo program for multiple allocations in try with resources.
 * @author <a href="mailto:###@###.###">Christian Hujer</a>
 */
public class MultipleTest {

    /** Main program.
     * @param args Command line arguments - two filenames, try non-existing file as second argument.
     * @throws IOException in case of I/O problems.
     */
    public static void main(final String... args) throws IOException {
        try (final InputStream i1 = new FileInputStream(args[0]), i2 = new FileInputStream(args[1])) {
        }
    }
}

---------- END SOURCE ----------

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
import java.io.*;

/** Demo program for multiple allocations in try with resources.
 * @author <a href="mailto:###@###.###">Christian Hujer</a>
 */
public class MultipleTest {

    /** Main program.
     * @param args Command line arguments - two filenames, try non-existing file as second argument.
     * @throws IOException in case of I/O problems.
     */
    public static void main(final String... args) throws IOException {
        try (final InputStream i1 = new FileInputStream(args[0]); final InputStream i2 = new FileInputStream(args[1])) {
        }
    }
}