RE: POC Release Announcement for Guilder Build Project

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tugwilson [mailto:tug@...]
> Sent: woensdag 5 maart 2008 10:49 AM
> To: user@...
> Subject: RE: [groovy-user] POC Release Announcement for
> Guilder Build Project
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> Bloois, Rene de wrote:
> >
> >
> > John,
> >
> > I'm sure you meant to write
> >
> > a = 2
> >
> > for the second assignment to a :)
> >
>
>
> You are quite right, thanks for the correction (I had not had
> my first coffee when I posted that!)
>
> John Wilson
>
> PS
>
> there is another use of Closures in GStrings which is
> slightly more specialised.
>
> If you embed a closure with a single parameter then it is
> called with a Writer as the parameter every time the GSting
> is evaluated. Characters write to the Writer will be embedded
> in the resultant String.
>
> This combines with the behaviour of GStings when they are
> passed to a Writer (the individual elements of the GString
> are written in order to the Writer rather than evaluating the
> GString to a String and writing that to a Writer).
>
> The effect is that you can create GStrings which consist of
> very large amounts of data (gigabytes) but which can be
> written out without consuming excessive amounts of memory.
>
> One use for this mechanism is to produce a GString which
> includes the contents of a file without having to read all
> the file into memory before writing it out.
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