Before Groovy 1.8, the standard tactic we Groovy script developers used to deal with this situation was to not define the local variables with the def keyword or with a static type declaration.

In the posts JDK 7: New Interfaces, Classes, Enums, and Methods and Groovy Script for Comparing Javadoc Versions, I looked at using Groovy to identify Java constructs new to Java 7 documentation ...

Groovy 2.0 brings key static features to the language with static type checking and static compilation. In this article, we’re going to look into those new features in more detail.