[GROOVY-198] it would be nice if conditional clauses could be coerced to a boolean

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-4
• Component/s: parser
• Assignee: James Strachan
• Reporter: Chris Poirier
• Created: 15/Feb/04 00:40
• Updated: 07/Mar/04 01:31
• Resolved: 06/Mar/04 11:00

Description

Perhaps it is because it happens automatically in pretty much every other language I use, but it would be really convenient if conditional clauses could be coerced to a boolean, as necessary:

variable = doSomething()
if( variable )
{
println( "variable is not null" )
}
else
{
println( "variable is null" )
}