Russel is working on GPars v2.0 so have asked him if this proposed change
is do-able.

On 7 January 2017 at 18:28, Andres Almiray <aalmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a slippery slope IMHO.
>
> Adding custom syntax support in core for GPars might sound like a good
> idea given the fact that GPars is bundled with core. OTOH what about Spock,
> Grails, Ratpack and others? Wouldn't they benefit from custom syntax too?
> probably yes. Are they bundled with core? no, and they shouldn't.
>
> My recommendation would be to prototype an AST transformation that can
> support the syntax, just like Spock does it.
>
> One more thing, I would be very sad to see Groovy become a pale shade of
> Scala. Custom syntax and new operators are pushing Groovy in that direction.
>
> Cheers
> Andres
>
> Sent from my primitive Tricorder
>
> > On Jan 7, 2017, at 6:21 PM, Daniel Sun <realblue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > class ActorTest  {
> >    def counter = new Counter()
> >    counter.start()
> >
> >    for (i in 0 .. 100000) {
> >        counter <- i    // send message to the counter actor
> >    }
> > }
> >
> > should be modified as:
> >
> > class ActorTest  {
> >    public static void main(String[] args) {
> >        def counter = new Counter()
> >        counter.start()
> >
> >        for (i in 0 .. 100000) {
> >          counter <- i    // send message to the counter actor
> >        }
> >    }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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