Glad I could help! :-) So that syntax on the assignment to ‘file’ is not legal?
> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Cédric Champeau <cedric.champ...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Oh, that's a good catch. this shouldn't appear in the docs. It's a side > effect of an unclosed tag in our test files: > > https://github.com/melix/groovy-core/blob/bf8c4b54863ddf045760fb55db60c098a8df3616/src/spec/test/gdk/WorkingWithIOSpecTest.groovy#L313-323 > > <https://github.com/melix/groovy-core/blob/bf8c4b54863ddf045760fb55db60c098a8df3616/src/spec/test/gdk/WorkingWithIOSpecTest.groovy#L313-323> > > The end:: tag doesn't correspond to the opening tag::, so asciidoctor > scrambled the output. Will fix it! > > > > 2015-07-09 18:53 GMT+02:00 Les Hartzman <lhartz...@gmail.com > <mailto:lhartz...@gmail.com>>: > Hi, > > As the subject says, I’ve just gotten started with learning Groovy and have > been going through the documentation. > > There is some code in the section on files that is not explained. If someone > could clarify that, it would be great: > > doInTmpDir { b -> > File file = null > def tmpDir = b.tmp { > file = 'foo.tmp'('foo') > } > What does ‘foo.tmp’(‘foo’) do? > I tried to put this into groovysh but it complained: No signature of method: > groovysh_evaluate.foo.tmp() is applicable for argument types: > (java.lang.String) values: [foo] > > Thanks in advance. > Les > > >
