GitHub user alexstajos opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/642
Fix documentation to say that private fields are turned into properties I'm new to Groovy, and this section of the documentation was confusing to me and seemed to contradict what is in the [Properties](http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/#properties) section. I think this is change would be correct. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/alexstajos/groovy doc_fix Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/642.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #642 ---- commit c83038aea5a661828f5aafb0dad8fc22583fe59f Author: alex1150 <alex.sta...@rackspace.com> Date: 2017-12-05T19:45:39Z Fix documentation to say that private fields are turned into properties instead of public fields. ---- ---