Changelog for Groovy 1.0.0-beta-2

Bug

• [GROOVY-42] - ! expressions not working
• [GROOVY-44] - 5.times { ... } fails. Calling methods on numbers with closures seems bonked
• [GROOVY-48] - Bugs in the "text ${foo} text" parser
• [GROOVY-59] - support heredocs to allow text to be easily marked up using <<token ... token
• [GROOVY-60] - Verify error when you test a list property and set it then use it
• [GROOVY-68] - Inconsistent Stack Height
• [GROOVY-74] - method invocation passing a String[] seems to barf when there is more than one element
• [GROOVY-88] - BSFManager not available to GroovyShell when using GroovyEngine.exec()
• [GROOVY-89] - First example on first page of site is broken !

Improvement

• [GROOVY-65] - parser to handle ; and newlines better which could help reduce ambiguity
• [GROOVY-85] - Allow single statement without {} with if, for, while

New Feature

• [GROOVY-37] - Support instanceof as an operator in the language
• [GROOVY-38] - parser to support interactive shell style parsing
• [GROOVY-62] - implement switch statement

Task

• [GROOVY-5] - Foo.class class constant
• [GROOVY-6] - subscript operator [..]

Wish

• [GROOVY-29] - Refactor the MetaClass to use an Object[] rather than Object for arguments?
• [GROOVY-81] - groovlets improvements - support cross-script dependencies