[GROOVY-2067] Truth as a method.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: syntax
• Environment: Ubuntu 7.04, Java 1.6.01, Groovy 1.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marcos Silva Pereira
• Created: 16/Aug/07 15:39
• Updated: 06/Mar/18 23:25
• Resolved: 02/May/17 02:12

Description

With isCase method, you could do any type become a classifier for switch-case statements. Groovy should deals with truth the same way providing a method that checks truth.

This could avoid problems like that:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.groovy.devel/8507/focus=8519

And provides to users a way to do any class become a classifier for conditional statements. The possible names to the methods are:
1. isTrue
2. checkTruth
3. truth
4. $isTrue
5. truth
6. asBool

Issue Links

• duplicates: GROOVY-982 provide a general isTrue() analogous to isCase()