[GROOVY-1037] Primitive types don't have default values

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-8, 1.0-beta-9, 1.0-beta-10, 1.0-JSR-1, 1.0-JSR-2, 1.0-JSR-3
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-4
• Environment: Java 1.5.0_03 on Windows XP
• Assignee: Kim, Pilho
• Reporter: Martin C. Martin
• Created: 02/Sep/05 08:09
• Updated: 18/Sep/05 14:33
• Resolved: 18/Sep/05 14:33

Description

In the following code, I declare a member as a primitive type. In Java, it could never have a "null" value, and its value would default to 0. But in Groovy:

groovy> class Foo

{ public float x }

groovy> y = new Foo()
groovy> println y.x
groovy> go
null

So, when the primitive type is boxed (i.e. changed from float to Float), it should also get a default value if it doesn't already have one.

This is part of GROOVY-683 that somehow got overlooked.