Re: [Poll] About supporting Java-like array

2018-05-01 Thread Jochen Theodorou
On 01.05.2018 19:27, Daniel Sun wrote: Hi Jochen, Supporting Java-like array is to copy & paste code in Java easily, e.g. experiment Java code in groovy console :-) I really don't think Groovy has to support everything from Java. I agree. If we could improve the compatibility

Re: [Poll] About supporting Java-like array

2018-05-01 Thread Daniel Sun
Hi Jochen, Supporting Java-like array is to copy & paste code in Java easily, e.g. experiment Java code in groovy console :-) > I really don't think Groovy has to support everything from Java. I agree. If we could improve the compatibility between Groovy and Java, it would be good

Re: [Poll] About supporting Java-like array

2018-05-01 Thread Jochen Theodorou
Oh,and one important point... I really don't think Groovy has to support everything from Java. On 01.05.2018 17:20, Jochen Theodorou wrote: On 01.05.2018 16:26, MG wrote: I think we should do this, for cases where the rewards of adhering to idiomatic Groovy are less obvious or it might be

Re: [Poll] About supporting Java-like array

2018-05-01 Thread Jochen Theodorou
On 01.05.2018 16:26, MG wrote: I think we should do this, for cases where the rewards of adhering to idiomatic Groovy are less obvious or it might be missed that there even _is_ an idiomatic Groovy way to do things (I have heard some people were not aware that array initialization without "as"

Re: [Poll] About supporting Java-like array

2018-05-01 Thread MG
I think we should do this, for cases where the rewards of adhering to idiomatic Groovy are less obvious or it might be missed that there even _is_ an idiomatic Groovy way to do things (I have heard some people were not aware that array initialization without "as" was supported in Groovy ;-) ).

Re: [Poll] About supporting Java-like array

2018-05-01 Thread MG
I have created the issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/GROOVY/issues/GROOVY-8566 Feel free to comment on the "less lenient for static compilation case ?" question: "An additonal question would be, whether in the static case the automatic conversion of the RHS expression to fit the

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2018-05-01 Thread Rich Bowen
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