GitHub user christoph-frick reopened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/174
add `doto`: same as `with`, but returns the incoming object
My usecase for `with` is >80% to (ab)use it as some sort of builder. Since
I end up putting close to always `(return) it` at the end of my closure: `doto`
is a slight variation of `with`, that just returns the incoming object.
[`doto` is a loanword from clojure](http://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/doto),
where it does the same and I could not find a naming scheme for groovy, that
would not involve renaming `with` (which is impossible).
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Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/174.patch
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This closes #174
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commit 31cf750e787476e289235b25a8e59ca8a09c8cce
Author: Christoph Frick <[email protected]>
Date: 2015-11-01T21:01:23Z
add `doto`: same as `with`, but returns the incoming object
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