Hi Paul,
a temporal refactoring argument - good point.
But you could also temporarily enable AutoFinal for a project and start
fixing the spots which do not compile, and only when you are finished (I
would actually expect this to take much less time than switiching a
project to CompileStatic, since the fixes are much more trivial),
permanently turn on AutoFinal for the whole project. I think my argument
still applies here: AutoFinal is useful, when you can trust that it is
active everywhere. If you are not worried about that, there is no need
for you to use final anywhere (be it automatic or explicit) in the first
place. That is why I suggested a compiler switch in the beginning
(though I get and accept why that was rejected).
"Doing things the same as in other parts of Groovy" is of course an
argument that generally does make sense. "Least surprise" with regard to
interfaces... ;-)
KR,
Markus
On 09.10.2017 01:16, Paul King wrote:
My inclination would be that if you are going to have a disable option
at the method/constructor level, then I'd also enable it at the class
level. Imagine inheriting a large Groovy code base and you want to
migrate it towards have auto finals. With a class level option you
could enable it globally with a configscript and selectively disable
on classes that you haven't got around to "fixing" to comply with the
stricter style yet. As you start working on a class you might move it
from the class level to just the violating methods/constructors and
then eventually remove all once you have completed the conversion
process. We have the same kind of approach in place for CompileStatic.
Cheers, Paul.
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 5:58 AM, MG <mg...@arscreat.com
<mailto:mg...@arscreat.com>> wrote:
Hi Groovy users,
we are putting the final touches (no pun intended) on the Groovy
@AutoFinal annotation. The intended use is to apply the annotation
automatically to all project classes (see e.g.
http://mrhaki.blogspot.co.at/2016/01/groovy-goodness-customising-groovy.html
<http://mrhaki.blogspot.co.at/2016/01/groovy-goodness-customising-groovy.html>),
thereby making all parameters anywhere in the project code final
without the need to clutter the code with final keywords in
parameter lists.
The question is, if there should be support to disable the
annotation selectively for e.g. a class or method. I personally
think that disabling it for a class violates the principle of
least surprise, but am not as sure for methods. So the question
is, can anyone come up with a good example where disabling
@AutoFinal selectively would make sense ?
(Note: "So I can assign a value to a parameter" for me does not
constitute such an example, since in that case one can just define
a local, non-final variable and assign the parameter to it).
Cheers,
mg
