Hidden features of Groovy?

Answer 1

Groovy can work a lot like Javascript. You can have private vars and functions via closure. You can also curry functions with closures.

class FunctionTests {

def privateAccessWithClosure = {

    def privVar = 'foo'

    def privateFunc = { x -> println "${privVar} ${x}"}

    return {x -> privateFunc(x) } 
}


def addTogether = { x, y ->
    return x + y
}

def curryAdd = { x ->
    return { y-> addTogether(x,y)}
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    def test = new FunctionTests()

    test.privateAccessWithClosure()('bar')

    def curried = test.curryAdd(5)

    println curried(5)
}
}

output:

foo bar 10