Darren Pulsipher schrieb:
> I am trying to do some fun things with evaluation of user typed expressions.
>
> I saw both evaluate(String) and GroovyShell.evaluate(string).
>
> Are these the same methods or are they different. If different how are
> they different?
one major difference, that comes to my mind is that evaluate is
available per default in scripts, but not normal classes. Also evaluate
shares its binding with the evaluated and then executed script, while in
GroovyShell you have to explicitly create a shell that shares the
binding... that is if you wish for that.
They are not fundamentally different. Sorting all the "evals" in Groovy
beginning with the less flexible and ending with the most flexible I
would have this order: evaluate(String), GroovyShell, GroovyClassLoader,
CompilationUnit.
bye blackdrag
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