Global constants in Groovy

Question

It is often desired to declare constants at the top of a script that can be referenced anywhere else in the script. In Groovy, it seems that if you declare a constant using fin

Answer 1

In Groovy 1.8+, you can achieve this using the @Field annotation:

import groovy.transform.Field

@Field final String MY_CONSTANT = 'constant'

def printConstant() { println MY_CONSTANT }

printConstant()