[GROOVY-4322] Support for Closure composition

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.8-beta-2
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Paul King
• Created: 24/Jul/10 01:36
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:07
• Resolved: 03/Aug/10 08:44

Description

It would be useful to support something like F#'s compose '>>' operator for Closures, e.g.:

def twice = { a -> a * 2 }
def inc = { b -> b + 1 }
def f = inc >> twice
def g = { x -> twice(inc(x)) } // longhand equivalent
assert f(10) == 22
assert g(10) == 22

def string2char = { it.chars[0] }
def p = Integer.&toHexString >> string2char >> Character.&toUpperCase
assert p(15) == 'F'

def multiply = { a, b -> a * b }
def identity = { a -> [a, a] }
def sq = identity >> multiply
assert (1..5).collect{ sq(it) } == [1, 4, 9, 16, 25]