Am 31.05.25 um 09:36 schrieb Paul King:
We have a feature request, and potential PR, to add java.time.* as a
new default import:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11513
https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/2156
I would vote against this proposal. Here are some arguments why:
First of all, I'm generally not in favor of adding more default default imports
to the language, since I suspect negative impacts on maintainability of scripts
and the efficiency of the compilation process.
Apart from Instance, LocalDateTime and ZonedDateTime most of the classes in
java.time are probably rarely used. Does this justify to add 16 extra classes?
The classes in java.time are not fully usable without classes from other
packages like java.time.format or java.time.temporal which should then also be
default imports.
There are many good points about including such a star import
This argument also holds for other packages like java.nio.* or java.text.
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Cheers, Alex
