Hi Paul,
1. A 100% continue with "...Groovy's goal of minimising boilerplate and
not assuming its users need excessive hand holding" from my side,
plz G-)
2. non-sealed: Hyphenated & negation keywords indeed seem like a poor
choice to me, unless they are the counterpart to a non-non-keyw
Hi Paul,
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 8:09 AM Paul King wrote:
> [...]
> Questions/Discussion points:
> (1) The annotations would allow some or all of the initial change to
> be backported to versions of Groovy (e.g. to a future 3.0.x or 3.1.x)
> where the grammar change isn't made. Are we happy to s
Hi folks,
With JDK17 introducing sealed classes[1] (which has been in preview
for JDK15/16), Groovy needs to at least properly handle such classes,
i.e. as a minimum not allow such classes to be extended in Groovy.
Otherwise, created classes will give an IncompatibleClassChangeError
when loaded.
