Actually, scratch that, the def is required.
Somehow, I feel that it could be made optional, and that would be more
elegant :-)
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I wouldn't use the def:
>
> (String string1, String string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
>
> (the def is redundant there)
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Dinko Srkoč <dinko.sr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 27 January 2017 at 19:15, Les Hartzman <lhartz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just saw a reference to using the above syntax, specifically as
>> follows:
>> >
>> > def (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
>> >
>> > This assigns string1 "part1" and string2 "part2".
>> >
>> > So my main question is what is this referred to as?
>>
>> It's called multiple assignment.
>>
>> >
>> > You can't do:
>> >
>> > String (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
>>
>> Well, you couldn't. What if types were different?
>>
>> But you could do it like this:
>>
>> def (String string1, String string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
>>
>> More on multiple assignments here:
>> http://groovy-lang.org/semantics.html#_multiple_assignment
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dinko
>>
>> >
>> > I did find out that you can do:
>> >
>> > String string1
>> > String string2
>> > (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Les
>> >
>>
>
>
>
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