Just found the same problem. This difference can introduce subtle bugs when refactoring groovy code to CompileStatic.
I suggest to report a bug for that. Cheers, Paolo On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:45 AM, MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > just a quick question since we came across it today when testing code that > had been converted from dynamic to static Groovy: Is the behavior that > statically compiled Groovy throws a NPE when the iterable to be iterated > over is null (same as Java), while dynamically compiled Groovy uses the > NullObject.iterator(), i.e. does not throw but instead iterates over an > empty collection by design ? > > Cheers, > mg > > >
