A closure as the second argument is the only case where arguments
don't need to be comma separated. These both work:
test true, "oops"
test (true), "oops"
Cheers, Paul.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 9:47 PM OCsite <o...@ocs.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> is this my fault, for I missed some documentation somewhere, or a parser
> fault, for it should have recognised the bool as the 1st and string as the
> 2nd argument and just call “test” with “true, 'oops'” in the last case (as
> I've, perhaps mistakenly, assumed)?
>
> ===
>
> 782 ocs /tmp> <q.groovy
>
> def test={ boolean always=false, val ->
>
> println "$always: $val"
>
> }
>
> test "hi"
>
> test(true, "ha")
>
> test(true) { -> "ho" } // a closure is properly recognised as 2nd arg
>
> test(true) "oops" // a string is not?!?
>
> 782 ocs /tmp> /usr/local/groovy-4.0.0-alpha-1/bin/groovy q
>
> false: hi
>
> true: ha
>
> true: ho
>
> false: true
>
> Caught: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot get property 'oops' on null
> object
>
> 783 ocs /tmp>
>
> ===
>
> Thanks and all the best,
> OC
