Re: Default value in Closure

Sounds like a good idea.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 3:21 AM Niranjan Ghule <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Paul,
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> Thanks for sharing this.
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> I agree with you on making it clearer by restating it perhaps by adding link you mentioned after the code snippet in documentation.
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> I can raise a PR if you think it's a good idea.
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>
> Thanks and Regards
> Niranjan
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 5:32 pm Paul King, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Perhaps the documentation around methods/constructors[1] is clearest:
>> "Parameters are dropped from the right, however mandatory parameters
>> are never dropped."
>>
>> So the following is fine (showing it's not just the last parameter):
>>
>> def clos = { a, b = 2, c = 100 -> a * b + c }
>> assert clos(5, 4, 1) == 21
>> assert clos(5, 4) == 120
>> assert clos(5) == 110
>>
>> The Closure documentation[2] indicates that it follows the same
>> principle as methods but perhaps
>> could be restated to make it clearer.
>>
>> Cheers, Paul.
>>
>> ===========
>>
>> [1] Method doco:
>> https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/#_default_arguments
>> [2] Closure doco:
>> https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/#_normal_parameters
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 1:36 PM Niranjan Ghule <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > Hi Team,
>> >
>> > In Closure with default values in parameters, only the last parameter can have a default value, isn't it?
>> >
>> > We can add this detail in documentation.