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[Xtend] plans for list/array literals? [message #762027]

Wed, 07 December 2011 12:59

Vlad Dumitrescu

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Gothenburg

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Hi,

We were about to start implementing our test suites in Groovy, but since we might move to Xtext, it's easier to use Xtend instead. One thing that I miss from Groovy is the literal lists/arrays. These make writing tests much easier.

Are there any plans to add something similar? Or maybe there are already some nifty extension methods to do that?

best regards,
Vlad

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Re: [Xtend] plans for list/array literals? [message #762044 is a reply to message #762027]

Wed, 07 December 2011 13:21

Sven Efftinge

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Registered: July 2009

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Am 12/7/11 1:59 PM, schrieb Vlad Dumitrescu:
> Hi,
>
> We were about to start implementing our test suites in Groovy, but since
> we might move to Xtext, it's easier to use Xtend instead. One thing that
> I miss from Groovy is the literal lists/arrays. These make writing tests
> much easier.
>
> Are there any plans to add something similar? Or maybe there are already
> some nifty extension methods to do that?

Yes, they are not extension methods, but implicitly imported:

newArrayList('foo','bar','baz')
newHashSet('a','b','c')
newHashMap(1 -> 'one', 2 -> 'two')

Sven

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