groovy

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-beta-2
• Component/s: lexer
• Labels:

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Rather than having a special RangeExpression 0..5 we could just make .. an operator.

Then the .. operator on numbers could create a range and we can use this operator to do a 'traverse' on other objects. E.g. we can use .. to be like // in XPath.

e.g.

node = builder.foo() {
bar() { x("a") x("b") }
}
node..x

would yield [ x("a"), x("b") ]

We could also use .. to invoke methods on collections of objects too.

node..x..name() would yield ["a", "b"]

• Assignee:

  Paul King

  Reporter:

  james strachan

• Created:

  03/Oct/03 3:31 AM

  Updated:

  10/Jun/07 4:14 AM

  Resolved:

  10/Jun/07 4:14 AM