[GROOVY-6892] Oddity with Min function for Collections

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0-beta-3
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Vimal Gopal
• Created: 25/Jun/14 00:36
• Updated: 17/Dec/14 13:25
• Resolved: 01/Aug/14 08:39

Description

Consider the following array:

arr = [3,null,5]

Calling min() on this array results in the value 3. However, using min with a closure as in...

arr.min

{ it }

will result in the value of 5. Groovy basically ignores everything prior to and including the null.

Someone first detected this problem a couple of years ago, but it still doesn't appear to be fixed. Here is the original thread on this:

http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Oddity-with-Groovy-Collection-min-when-using-a-closure-td5710629.html