Christopher Smith created GROOVY-10628: ------------------------------------------
Summary: Elvis assignment operator loses type information Key: GROOVY-10628 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-10628 Project: Groovy Issue Type: Bug Components: Static Type Checker Affects Versions: 4.0.2 Reporter: Christopher Smith This class works as expected: {code} class RoutingInfo { String to void hello() { this.to ?= 'alice' } } {code} Trying to use Elvis assignment from a class _in another file_ (it must be another file) causes the STC to lose track of the type of the RHS and complain that it can't assign Object to String: {code} class Other { void world() { new RoutingInfo().to ?= 'bob' } } {code} {code} Groovy:[Static type checking] - Cannot assign value of type java.lang.Object to variable of type java.lang.String {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.7#820007)