Closures and Switch Statements
Explore Groovy closures, including implicit variables and their use like Java lambdas, and understand Groovy's versatile switch statements allowing strings, lists, and ranges as cases. This lesson clarifies common Groovy and Java differences and helps you effectively apply Groovy's dynamic features.
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Closures
A closure is a block of code in Groovy, which may or may not take parameters and return a value. It is very similar to lambda expressions in Java 8. For example, in the above code it.size() <= 4 and println it are closures.
Groovy closures have several ...