yea? you're getting into it now? pretty good huh?

it is pretty cool.. I'm working on porting (as a test) some of my simulation software into Groovy, mainly my present-tense English parser.

sounds like a fun little project. I am porting over some of my rest services

so far, so good with the porting, btw. From python it is so similar.

the main difference is that I forgot a few java basics which made me pause for a few.

in Python we use "def __init__(self, arguments):" which runs whenever we instantiate a new instance

whereas in Java (& Groovy), I forgot that one just names the method the same as that of the class to accomplish the same.

def _init_? weird. that's what cf is starting to do too. I really like the shorthand for optional arguments which boils down to overloading

what I have a question about is regexes.. I know how to do them in Perl, Ruby, Grep, Sed and Python...

but I have a specific problem in Groovy/Java

I'm iterating through list and want to replace certain characters with left and right space padded versions of themselves. ',' into ' , '

ideas?

disregard, figured it out.

(Like you'd expect anything less)