Chapter 6. Groovy control structures
This chapter covers
- Groovy truth
- Conditionals and branching
- Looping
- Exception handling
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
At the hardware level, computer systems use simple arithmetic and logical operations, such as jumping to a new location if a memory value equals zero. Any complex flow of logic that a computer is executing can always be expressed in terms of these simple operations. Fortunately, languages like Java raise the abstraction level available in programs you write so that you can express the flow of logic in terms of higher-level constructs—for example, looping through all of the elements in an ...
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