Hi all, The brand new parser can support method reference and constructor reference now. The implementation of backend is based on the discussion of GROOVY-7772 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7772> .
Here are some example code of method reference for Groovy: import java.util.stream.Collectors assert ['1', '2', '3'] == [1, 2, 3].stream().map(Integer::toString).collect(Collectors.toList()) assert ['A', 'B', 'C'] == ['a', 'b', 'c'].stream().map(String::toUpperCase).collect(Collectors.toList()) assert [new String[1], new String[2], new String[3]] == [1, 2, 3].stream().map(String[]::new).collect(Collectors.toList()) ( Complete example code can be found at: https://github.com/danielsun1106/groovy-parser/blob/master/src/test/resources/core/MethodReference_01x.groovy <https://github.com/danielsun1106/groovy-parser/blob/master/src/test/resources/core/MethodReference_01x.groovy> ) At last, I want to thank *Jochen Theodorou* who explained the whole discussion of GROOVY-7772 in detail for me. *PS:* if you want to give it a try, follow the step: $ git clone https://github.com/danielsun1106/groovy-parser.git $ cd groovy-parser $ ./gradlew groovyConsole Cheers, Daniel.Sun -- View this message in context: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Method-reference-for-Groovy-3-tp5736296.html Sent from the Groovy Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.