18 Nov 2004 15:14
Re: Feedack on Groovy
On 18 Nov 2004, at 14:07, Dierk Koenig wrote: > Hi> > Explicit coercion surely has some advantages, but > for my taste it doesn't really _look_ great: > > // ok, but looks like VB > java.utilCollections.sort([1,2,3] as List) > > // Does this look nice? How to parse this? > [1,2,3] as List.sort() > [1,2,3] as List.each{...} How about just [1, 2, 3].sort() [1, 2, 3].each { ... } (which works today). James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
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> Explicit coercion surely has some advantages, but
> for my taste it doesn't really _look_ great:
>
> // ok, but looks like VB
> java.utilCollections.sort([1,2,3] as List)
>
> // Does this look nice? How to parse this?
> [1,2,3] as List.sort()
> [1,2,3] as List.each{...}
How about just
[1, 2, 3].sort()
[1, 2, 3].each { ... }
(which works today).
James
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