Chapter 3. The simple Groovy datatypes
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. | ||
| --Albert Einstein | ||
Groovy supports a limited set of datatypes at the language level; that is, it offers means for literal declaration and specialized operators. This set contains the simple datatypes for strings, regular expressions, and numbers, as well as the collective datatypes for ranges, lists, and maps. This chapter covers the simple datatypes; the next chapter introduces the collective datatypes.
Before we go into details, you’ll learn about Groovy’s general approach to typing. With this in mind, you can appreciate Groovy’s approach of treating everything as an object and all operators as method calls. You ...
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