Re: toDebugString as a Groovy core concept

2018-01-03 Thread Ahm Avoby
Hi Guillaume, thanks for that question. I always felt GDK Object#dump() was meant to be used "as is", not to be overridden (overriding not mentioned in the Object doc, although there is of course nothing prohibiting one technically to do so). I also think that the name (while concise) is easy to

Re: [VOTE]About the Union Type for method/constructor declaration

2017-07-23 Thread Ahm Avoby
This is a feature I could see myself using immediately, so +1 from my side. Maybe call it "Intersection Types" or "Common Denominator Types", to seperate it from much more complex type pattern matching support ? Daniel Sun schrieb am So., 23. Juli 2017, 00:28: > Hi

Re: upcoming release(s)

2017-07-23 Thread Ahm Avoby
I usually just take what the newest Groovy release gives us - but now I am curious: Where are the new features for 3.0 listed ? Groovy has no roadmap, future outlook etc on the official webpage as far as I know ? I am of course still very much interested in any feature that solves the

Re: Java 8 Date/Time API Extension Methods

2017-06-26 Thread Ahm Avoby
Hi Jim, @static parse(): I am with you on keeping the Java 8 API ordering, but I would not jettison the upto and downto methods, as to not confuse people switching from Java 8 to Groovy. Cheers, Ahm Joe Wolf schrieb am So., 25. Juni 2017, 23:32: > Goodtimes 1.1 is out with

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Groovy 2.4.12 released

2017-06-24 Thread Ahm Avoby
Congratulations on the release - as a Groovy developer it's always great to see Groovy getting better... As my son's Minecraft Groovy consultant, I saw that 2.4.12 does not contain a fix for the (unfortunately required) "obfuscation not working when trying to mod Minecraft using Groovy" problem I