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Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy

From Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy
Date 2011-11-17 11:02 -0800
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:32:54 -0800, markspace <-@.> wrote:

>On 11/17/2011 10:25 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> written was something like:
>>            if (cParsedWord=="$define")
>> Instead, I had to write:
>>            if (cParsedWord.equals("$define"))
>> Without that method, it was something like:
>>            if (cParsedWord.Value.toString().equals("$define"))

>In all honesty, I prefer the last one.  At least I can see what is going 
>on, and I don't think it is long at all.  There are plenty of good 
>examples where Java is verbose.  This isn't one of them.

     Um, the condition is twice the length of other languages'
equivalents.

>And overriding "equals" in this way is pernicious.

     Why?  I was checking for equality.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-16 00:41 -0800
  Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-17 07:16 -0800
    Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 09:28 -0800
      Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-18 08:16 +0000
      Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-18 02:32 -0800
        Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-11-18 07:35 -0400
        Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-18 07:23 -0800
    Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-11-17 10:25 -0800
      Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-17 10:32 -0800
        Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-11-17 11:02 -0800
  Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-19 11:49 +0100

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