Comments on: Groovy Metaprogramming – Adding Behavior Dynamically http://www.justinspradlin.com/programming/groovy-metaprogramming-adding-behavior-dynamically/ Coding and such... Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:31:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.justinspradlin.com/programming/groovy-metaprogramming-adding-behavior-dynamically/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Jeff Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:07:37 +0000 http://www.justinspradlin.com/?p=13#comment-441 You were very polite to Greg M. I'd have told him if he wanted to read about Scala or Clojure, try not putting the words 'Groovy' in his search engine. :P One pitfall is of course messing around with methods or properties that can cause a so-called "Action at a Distance" meaning, you co-op'ed a method or property other's code was not expecting. Another danger is 'self'. Best be a BigDecimal. Nonetheless, thanks for the writeup. Writeups trump whining everytime. Got something better to say? Write it up!!! (Heal thy self) You were very polite to Greg M. I’d have told him if he wanted to read about Scala or Clojure, try not putting the words ‘Groovy’ in his search engine. :P

One pitfall is of course messing around with methods or properties that can cause a so-called “Action at a Distance” meaning, you co-op’ed a method or property other’s code was not expecting.

Another danger is ’self’. Best be a BigDecimal. Nonetheless, thanks for the writeup. Writeups trump whining everytime. Got something better to say? Write it up!!! (Heal thy self)

]]> By: Justin http://www.justinspradlin.com/programming/groovy-metaprogramming-adding-behavior-dynamically/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Justin Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:39:57 +0000 http://www.justinspradlin.com/?p=13#comment-80 You're right. I did mean Java. You’re right. I did mean Java.

]]> By: Greg M http://www.justinspradlin.com/programming/groovy-metaprogramming-adding-behavior-dynamically/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Greg M Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:55:49 +0000 http://www.justinspradlin.com/?p=13#comment-79 You need to find all instances of "static language" in your article and replace them with the word "Java". Or maybe learn about higher-order functions and modern type systems and then rewrite it from scratch - OK maybe not from scratch, but you'd probably add a second section called "the pitfalls of metaprogramming" and a third called "how to avoid them". You need to find all instances of “static language” in your article and replace them with the word “Java”. Or maybe learn about higher-order functions and modern type systems and then rewrite it from scratch – OK maybe not from scratch, but you’d probably add a second section called “the pitfalls of metaprogramming” and a third called “how to avoid them”.

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