"list?.first() ?: defaultValue" is not the equivalent. If the collection is empty, first() throws an IndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown. That's why I'm asking if there is a simple equivalent. I suppose this is the equivalent now that I think about it:
list ? list.first() : defaultValue ________________________________ From: ocs@ocs <o...@ocs.cz> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:07 PM To: dev@groovy.apache.org Subject: Re: DGM for first or default Myself, I am not a huge fan of adding not-often-needed functionalities (and actually would add almost none of those discussed lately); nevertheless... On 18 Oct 2018, at 6:48 PM, Paolo Di Tommaso <paolo.ditomm...@gmail.com<mailto:paolo.ditomm...@gmail.com>> wrote: -1, it can be easily done as: list.first() ?: defaultValue ... this won't work in case the first object is a Groovy False (e.g., an empty string, or a plethora of others). All the best, OC p On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:45 PM Daniel.Sun <sun...@apache.org<mailto:sun...@apache.org>> wrote: +0 from me. P.S. we should add similar DGM for `last` too? Cheers, Daniel.Sun ----- Daniel Sun Apache Groovy committer Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__blog.sunlan.me_&d=DwMFAg&c=4ZIZThykDLcoWk-GVjSLmy8-1Cr1I4FWIvbLFebwKgY&r=tPJuIuL_GkTEazjQW7vvl7mNWVGXn3yJD5LGBHYYHww&m=eCM29fHJoKqW_CdKJO2GxdVR6VMqldnDZ9NQgYxSo08&s=Kuqjwc4Pu38Y9C4Zooo3uBjDkGvyna3lloonS2m7GTE&e=> Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com_Groovy-2DDev-2Df372993.html&d=DwMFAg&c=4ZIZThykDLcoWk-GVjSLmy8-1Cr1I4FWIvbLFebwKgY&r=tPJuIuL_GkTEazjQW7vvl7mNWVGXn3yJD5LGBHYYHww&m=eCM29fHJoKqW_CdKJO2GxdVR6VMqldnDZ9NQgYxSo08&s=J5vmRmzvL66tJOtxSbSidNjQHcCHKNV3t2A0OHPCgDY&e=>