Comments on: Groovy Elvis Operator?:

By: Groovy Elvis Operator?: - Grails Elvis Operator

Groovy Elvis Operator?: - Grails Elvis Operator — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:48:20 +0000

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By: Using Groovy to See the Future of Java | PHP Hosts

Using Groovy to See the Future of Java | PHP Hosts — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:49:37 +0000

[...] traditional Java without ternary, traditional Java with ternary, and the Groovy Elvis operator. The Elvis operator makes the ternary operator even more concise. Like the safe navigation operator, this can be handy [...]

By: [digital:meditation] » JUG Saxony 07/2009: Groovy

[digital:meditation] » JUG Saxony 07/2009: Groovy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:45:22 +0000

[...] the second insight of the evening was getting to know Groovys “Elvis Operator” which, asides being really helpful at times, in terms of its naming surely once again demonstrates [...]

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:15:10 +0000

Alex, You are right on that the Groovy Ternary operator can do so much more than the Java one!! My words were to show the basic logical branching in Groovy is similar to Java but thank you for Pointing it out to other readers!

By: Alex Shneyderman

Alex Shneyderman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:38:27 +0000

Your statement “The syntax and logic for the ternary operator is the same in Groovy as it is in Java; (Condition) ? Value-If-True : Value-If-False Iâ€™m not going to get into a lesson on the ternary operator and you can certainly read more here.”

is not correct. Groovy’s ternary operator is a lot more handy. for example you can not do this in Java:

debug ? (println “debug is on”) : (println “debug is off”)

you can not do this in Java. In Java you would have to revert to if/else.

By: Steve Olsen

Steve Olsen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:21:00 +0000

So is long-eyed Elvis operator implemented? Looks like a cool idea to me!