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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 5:15 PM MG, <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote:

> With regards to the Groovy 3.0 Release Notes
> (http://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-3.0.html) "Nested code
> blocks" section:
> What about in addition supporting two reserved keywords, "block" and
> "eval", as follows:
>
> void foo() {
>    block {
>      // Makes nested code block explicit (without it, the block could
> e.g. have a missing if or else construct before it)
>      // Avoids the need to use semicolon before nested code block to
> distinguish code block from a closure
>      // Otherwise no difference to Java nested code block
>    }
>
>    // equivalent to:
>    if(true) { ... }
>
>
>    final x = eval {
>       // Nested code block whose final evaluated statement is its return
> value
>    }
>
>    // semi-equivalent to:
>     final x =  true ? (...;...;...) : null
> }
>
>
> The application for these constructs for me lie in cases where one needs
> to create a scope with a local variables, but where one would need to
> pass a large number of parameters to a helper method that coud be
> introduced, or one would really have to try hard to come up with a
> meaningful method name (implying that the functionality is too
> small/specialized to be moved into a seperate method).
>
> Thoughts ?
> mg
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