[GROOVY-502] Adding instance methods to classes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-beta-2
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Thomas Heller
• Created: 26/May/04 11:06
• Updated: 18/Jun/07 05:38
• Resolved: 18/Jun/07 05:38

Description

Sam introduced the "use" keyword but I'd like to have a somewhat more permanent ways because "use" is quite noisy in scripts and can get overused quite easily.

I quickly developed a simple way to add methods just like the DefaultGroovyMethods does. Its not perfect cause it requires a system property but it works quite nicely.

See patch&testcase here:

http://lists.codehaus.org/pipermail/groovy-dev/2004q2/002055.html