Thank you Jochen and Cédric for explaining you rationale. It is funny,
because I always thought keeping Groovy as close to Java as possible was
a given. Evidently it is not...
My rational for the feature is "copy and paste Java syntax compatibility
is good to not scare away newcomers" and "after looking at the breaking
changes, I decided that these should be so rare in practice that no one
will care". So the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
Btw, Jochen, can you give an example for using this syntax for array
type annotation arguments, which you mentioned a week or so back ?
Cheers,
mg
On 15.05.2018 10:38, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
Am 15.05.2018 um 08:03 schrieb mg:
What I meant to say yesterday at 1am was: "On the other hand I do not
get why only 2 PMC members have been voting +1 on this proposal..."
I did not vote +1 because I find it surplus, on the other hand I do
not really want to block it if others are eager enough, thus 0
bye Jochen
