Patch: Dynamic type promotion

groovy:000> 1000 * 1000000000
===> 1000000000000

More info in mail thread http://www.nabble.com/Patch:-Dynamic-type-promotion-td22976282.html

Patch attached. Diffstat:

main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/DefaultGroovyMethods.java        |   23 -
main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/InvokerHelper.java               |   20 -
main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/typehandling/BigIntegerMath.java |   26 +
main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/typehandling/IntegerMath.java    |   70 ++++
main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/typehandling/LongMath.java       |   85 ++++--
main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/typehandling/NumberMath.java     |   90 ++++--
test/groovy/operator/IntegerOperatorsTest.groovy                  |  141 +++++++++-
7 files changed, 369 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)

I'll also keep an updated patch available at http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/283098/patches/groovy_dynamic_type_promotion.patch

Here's an overview of the patch:

• Added test cases to IntegerOperatorsTest.groovy
• Modified NumberMath toBigInteger and toBigDecimal methods to call into DefaultGroovyMethods versions
• Modified IntegerMath to support dynamic type promotion for abs, add, subtract, multiply, unary minus and left shift.
• Modified BigIntegerMath to support left shift and right shift. It does not support unsigned right shift (>>>).
• Modified LongMath to support dynamic type promotion for abs, add, subtract, multiply, unary minus and left shift. Also changed a few "new Long" to "Long.valueOf" since it can be faster.
• Modified DefaultGroovyMethods.abs to call into NumberMath. Optimized toBigInteger so that it doesn't do unnecessary string conversions. Tweaked a few comments.
• Modified InvokerHelper.unaryMinus. Tweaked some valueOf.
• Modified semantics for the shift operators. It's now type coerced/promoted the same as other binary operators. Negative shifts are not allowed.