groovy

Make DGM.first() and DGM.last() work with any Iterable

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8.6
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0-beta-3, 1.8.7
  • Component/s: groovy-jdk
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Description

Currently, these methods only work with lists and arrays. This should be generalized to Iterables. In particular, first() would be very handy for Sets (which may be ordered or contain just a single element). This would put an end to the infamous set.iterator().next() idiom.

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Paul King added a comment -

Added. Thanks for the suggestion Peter.

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Paul King added a comment - Added. Thanks for the suggestion Peter.

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  • Assignee:
    Paul King
    Reporter:
    Peter Niederwieser
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