Comments on: The Groovy Spaceship Operator Explained

By: Brad Karels

Brad Karels — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:30:37 +0000

I am fortunate that here at Object Partners Inc. we have very solid, core group of developers with a lot of depth in both Groovy and Grails – the whole ’shoulders of giants’ thing. Beyond that, Groovy In Action, of course is one of my staple resources as well as the information available at http://groovy.codehaus.org/. Also, while Grails centric, http://www.grails.org/doc/latest/ has allowed me to piece together bits of functionality to create my desired outcome.

Despite the wonderful nature of Groovy and Grails, one of the great frustrations is the holes in the books and online resources, a lot of which is just dead wrong. I find the best course is to ask a lot of questions when you have an expert available, ask thorough and well formed questions with source code in the forums, and find some good bloggers to follow. Some other resources that have helped me along the path are:

* Follow @groovytweets on twitter
* The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition
* Groovy in Action
* http://groovy.codehaus.org
* http://www.objectpartners.com/weblog/
* http://www.grails.org/
* …and countless hours on ‘the google’, transient blogs, and user groups.

By: cease

cease — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:24:50 +0000

what resources do you use for groovy, like did you find this in a book anywhere ?

By: F.Baube

F.Baube — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:36:54 +0000

What’s old is new again. In FORTRAN this was called an “arithmetic IF”, look it up :)

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By: Paras Jain

Paras Jain — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:09:25 +0000

Thanks. I was not even aware that we have such operator in Groovy. Will try in some places where we have sorting operations.