Groovy Lesson 1: 1+1=2

What happends behind the scenes when you write Groovy code 1+1?

 

Honestly speaking, I'm a newbie of Groovy. And I want to share my learning expericens with you guys who want to study Groovy too. The followings will explain Groovy code 1+1.

 

We know that there always be object, and operators like "+" are method calls. So 

 

G        1                                           +             1                                       =                2

R

O        Integer                                                Integer

O        (boxing)                                           (boxing)                                            

V

Y

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J        new Integer(1).intValue(). plus     new Integer(1).intValue()        =           new Integer(2)

A                                                                                                                            (unboxing)

V

A

 

From this short lesson, we can see that Groovy is more OO than Java.

^_^

 

ps:

It's simple but I hope it's userful for you.