[GROOVY-1866] Extend Closure coercion to classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-rc-3
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Guillaume Sauthier
• Created: 30/Apr/07 18:13
• Updated: 05/Sep/07 19:53
• Resolved: 05/Sep/07 19:53

Description

Currently, it is possible to define closure coercion to interfaces:

{ } as Runnable

(bad example since closures are already runnable, but still...)

The mechanism leverages Java proxies and invocation handlers.
The mechanism should be enhanced to allow extending classes as well.