Is there any practical difference between the following two approaches to casting: result.count = (int) response['hits']['total'] vs result.count = response['hits']['total'] as int I'm using @C...

I've read through the "What's new in Groovy 2.0" and I'm a bit confused about when to use @CompileStatic. The article mentions that the @CompileStatic annotation was added for developers who weren'...

I'm novice groovy programmer, and I faced weird behaviour of switch-case-break statement with static compilation (@CompileStaticannotation). It seems that breaks are ignored. Is it a bug or I've mi...