Re: [groovy-dev] I'll give a Groovy presentation at the Jazoon'08

Quoting "Martin C. Martin" <martin@...>:

>>> Do you think it would be appropriate to point out these advantages,
>>> along with the disadvantages?
>>
>> You're right. I wanted to avoid doing a second "what's great about   
>> groovy" presentation (Ted Neward already does that on Monday and I   
>> probably can't compete with him :) and while doing so, I went too   
>> far. Thanks for pointing that out.
>
> No problem.  And thanks for allowing us to look over your presentation
> before you give it.  You seem genuinely interested in telling the
> audience what they should know if they're considering Groovy, which I
> suspect is why you're so willing to discuss the presentation in the
> first place.

"If someone criticizes you, it means that someone cares" :)

> I've gotten into a habit of putting types on most function
> declarations, both arguments and return.  A function declaration is a
> unit of abstraction, and callers generally don't have to look inside it
> to know how to call it.  But in the function body I usually skip the
> types, to make it more readable.
>
> Out of curiosity, does anybody else use that pattern?

Yes, I do.

Regards,

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