I think first() exists so there is a semantic pair for functional programming: first()/head() and tail() or init() and last()
________________________________ From: ocs@ocs <o...@ocs.cz> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:20 PM To: dev@groovy.apache.org Subject: Re: DGM for first or default Well I thought first is smart enough to return null for an empty list, same as my firstObject in Cocoa does. If it throws, what's on earth point of having the thing at all? In that case it can be replaced by list[0] without any drawback at all. All the best, OC On 18 Oct 2018, at 7:19 PM, Milles, Eric (TR Technology & Ops) <eric.mil...@thomsonreuters.com<mailto:eric.mil...@thomsonreuters.com>> wrote: "list?.first() ?: defaultValue" is not the equivalent. If the collection is empty, first() throws an IndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown. That's why I'm asking if there is a simple equivalent. I suppose this is the equivalent now that I think about it: list ? list.first() : defaultValue ________________________________ From: ocs@ocs <o...@ocs.cz<mailto:o...@ocs.cz>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:07 PM To: dev@groovy.apache.org<mailto:dev@groovy.apache.org> Subject: Re: DGM for first or default Myself, I am not a huge fan of adding not-often-needed functionalities (and actually would add almost none of those discussed lately); nevertheless... On 18 Oct 2018, at 6:48 PM, Paolo Di Tommaso <paolo.ditomm...@gmail.com<mailto:paolo.ditomm...@gmail.com>> wrote: -1, it can be easily done as: list.first() ?: defaultValue ... this won't work in case the first object is a Groovy False (e.g., an empty string, or a plethora of others). All the best, OC p On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:45 PM Daniel.Sun <sun...@apache.org<mailto:sun...@apache.org>> wrote: +0 from me. P.S. we should add similar DGM for `last` too? Cheers, Daniel.Sun ----- Daniel Sun Apache Groovy committer Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__blog.sunlan.me_&d=DwMFAg&c=4ZIZThykDLcoWk-GVjSLmy8-1Cr1I4FWIvbLFebwKgY&r=tPJuIuL_GkTEazjQW7vvl7mNWVGXn3yJD5LGBHYYHww&m=eCM29fHJoKqW_CdKJO2GxdVR6VMqldnDZ9NQgYxSo08&s=Kuqjwc4Pu38Y9C4Zooo3uBjDkGvyna3lloonS2m7GTE&e=> Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com_Groovy-2DDev-2Df372993.html&d=DwMFAg&c=4ZIZThykDLcoWk-GVjSLmy8-1Cr1I4FWIvbLFebwKgY&r=tPJuIuL_GkTEazjQW7vvl7mNWVGXn3yJD5LGBHYYHww&m=eCM29fHJoKqW_CdKJO2GxdVR6VMqldnDZ9NQgYxSo08&s=J5vmRmzvL66tJOtxSbSidNjQHcCHKNV3t2A0OHPCgDY&e=>
