[GROOVY-270] should Groovy allow constants of the form 1L?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-4
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-5
• Component/s: lexer
• Assignee: James Strachan
• Reporter: John Wilson
• Created: 14/Mar/04 07:14
• Updated: 08/Apr/04 09:04
• Resolved: 08/Apr/04 09:04

Description

Currently Groovy looks at the magnitude of an integer constant to see if it should be an int or a long. It does not support the trailing L notation to force the constant to be long.

Is this desirable?

Issue Links

• duplicates: GROOVY-256 Numeric literals: default BigDecimal for decimals, support suffixes