Hi Marcin, I think it makes sense, that it does not fail, as a +=1 returns 2 which by Groovys asBoolean is true. I am more inclined to say that Groovy 2.x had a bug, that was accepted as a compile error.
Just my two cents worth. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen, Søren Berg Glasius Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye, 8680 Ry, Denmark Mobile: +45 40 44 91 88, Skype: sbglasius --- Press ESC once to quit - twice to save the changes. Den ons. 8. jan. 2020 kl. 12.16 skrev Marcin Zajączkowski <msz...@wp.pl>: > Hi, > > Playing with the failures which Groovy 3 brought to Spock tests itself, > I noticed that Groovy 3 no longer rejects += and -= if used in an > assertion statement: > > > def a = 1 > > assert a += 1 //passes > > assert a == 2 //passes > > While it behaves consistently, I wonder if that change it was purposely > (it was failing in Groovy 2) or the check should be enhanced: > > https://github.com/apache/groovy/commit/a17b9eb85835a5eaa306a893a0a8bcd51a49e299#diff-05fe8708ce3207739a2cb39a97426e8dR345 > ? > > Marcin > > -- > https://blog.solidsoft.info/ - Working code is not enough >