[GROOVY-4189] Removing a metaClass method

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.2
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Yates
• Created: 04/May/10 03:05
• Updated: 03/Jan/22 00:56

Description

Spotted a question on stackoverflow about removing a metaclass method

The page here

http://groovy.codehaus.org/JN3525-MetaClasses

Says you should be able to do it by setting it to null, but we get this:

String.metaClass.foo = { "${delegate}foo" }
assert 'kung'.foo() == 'kungfoo'
String.metaClass.foo = null
assert 'woo'.foo() == 'woofoo'

That last assert should fail (according to the docs), but it passes

Is this a documentation issue?

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: GROOVY-5225 CLONE - Removing a metaClass method