What does the ‘static’ do in this file, sample.groovy?
static class froob {
}
The groovy code compiles fine with ‘static’ or without it.
What does the ‘static’ do in this file, sample.groovy? static class froob { }
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What does the ‘static’ do in this file, sample.groovy?
static class froob {
}
The groovy code compiles fine with ‘static’ or without it.
There is absolutely no difference. The static in this situation is ignored.
To test, I created a groovy class and piped the output of “javap -verbose StaticTest” to a file. Then put “static” before the class def and piped that to a 2nd file. I then diffed the two files. The only differences were those unique ids that are associated with the long class ID that gets generated new for every class.