Well, here, it's not only an assignment but a declaration, and for declaration, yes, you have to use def unfortunately.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Les Hartzman <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you saying it needs to be: > > def (String string1, String string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-") > > ? > > Thanks for the link on multiple assignments. > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Actually, scratch that, the def is required. >> Somehow, I feel that it could be made optional, and that would be more >> elegant :-) >> >> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I wouldn't use the def: >>> >>> (String string1, String string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-") >>> >>> (the def is redundant there) >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Dinko Srkoč <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 27 January 2017 at 19:15, Les Hartzman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Hi, >>>> > >>>> > I just saw a reference to using the above syntax, specifically as >>>> follows: >>>> > >>>> > def (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-") >>>> > >>>> > This assigns string1 "part1" and string2 "part2". >>>> > >>>> > So my main question is what is this referred to as? >>>> >>>> It's called multiple assignment. >>>> >>>> > >>>> > You can't do: >>>> > >>>> > String (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-") >>>> >>>> Well, you couldn't. What if types were different? >>>> >>>> But you could do it like this: >>>> >>>> def (String string1, String string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-") >>>> >>>> More on multiple assignments here: >>>> http://groovy-lang.org/semantics.html#_multiple_assignment >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Dinko >>>> >>>> > >>>> > I did find out that you can do: >>>> > >>>> > String string1 >>>> > String string2 >>>> > (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-") >>>> > >>>> > Thanks. >>>> > >>>> > Les >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Guillaume Laforge >>> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President >>> Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform >>> >>> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ >>> Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ >>> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Guillaume Laforge >> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President >> Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform >> >> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ >> Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ >> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> >> > > -- Guillaume Laforge Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
