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Paul King closed GROOVY-11253. ------------------------------ > Identity variants for DGM#countBy > --------------------------------- > > Key: GROOVY-11253 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11253 > Project: Groovy > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Paul King > Assignee: Paul King > Priority: Major > Fix For: 5.0.0-alpha-4 > > > We haven't added such functionality in the past since it was thought to be > more of a niche use case than groupBy (where we do provide it). But given > this is the closest Groovy has to creating a multiset/bag, it is probably > worth having as a shortcut - rather than requiring an explicit > Closure.IDENTITY. > Whether Groovy should have specialised multiset and multimap classes is > another question for another issue. We could use ".toMultiset()" to return a > more specialised multiset return type in that case, so we aren't making it > harder with this PR to add such functionality later if we wanted. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)