See also: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8770
Which I presume was also to mimick dynamic behavior. Cheers, Paul. On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 4:42 AM Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote: > On 28.08.2018 19:45, mg wrote: > > Since I just stumbled across this behavior while helping a junior > > developer debug his code: Why does statically compiled Groovy (2.5.2) > > return null from void methods, instead of raising a compile error ? > > i was actually not aware we kept this logic for static compilation, but > essentially it is like that because of dynamic Groovy, which derives > this from the reflective and methodhandles based method invocation > > bye Jochen >