[GROOVY-5150] Switch to a primitive representation of constants

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.5, 2.0-beta-2
• Component/s: Compiler
• Labels: compiler, constants, java, primitives
• Assignee: Cédric Champeau
• Reporter: Fat Zopilot
• Created: 28/Nov/11 18:38
• Updated: 07/Feb/23 20:56
• Resolved: 30/Nov/11 13:18

Description

Currently, constants such as
public static final int type = 32
are not internally represented as primitives.
This leads to oddities such as a constant being unusable in switch statements.
Since recent versions of the compile now know primitives, it would be nice if the internal representation was changed.

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-5292 Stub generation doesn't handle 'protected' multi-line String correctly.
• relates to: GROOVY-10928 Invalid stub code for interface field