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#35220: This issue is on many of the pages in the book (17, 18, 19, ... 181, 203) and is more nit-picky but I noticed that in many (but not all) of th...more...
 B1.0
13-Oct-08
19

#32381: The paragraph at the bottom of page 19 that starts with 'The"blue pill"...' is missing a space between 'The' and '"blue'. Very minor.

 B1.0
13-Jun-08
25

#30809: $groovy -version did not work (using version 1.5.4)
Had to use
$groovy -v
or
$groovy --version--Subhasish Mukherjee

 B1.0
15-Feb-08
44 44

#30511: global warning should be global warming--Tim Orr

 B1.0
18-Jan-08
52

#36259: In the first example of the "Safe Dereferencing" section, the output of s.size() should be 4 not 5.--Jim Goodnow

 P1.0
03-Dec-08
84

#31921: java.io.tmp property doesn't exist. Should be java.io.tmpdir instead.--Leslie Johnson

 P1.0
07-May-08
109
#30737: In Appending data to an existing file this code (before and after the append) println "${file.size()} lines" should be println "${fil...more...
 B1.0
12-Feb-08
121

#38430: First sentence. "You still want to know how XmlParser..." should be "You still want to know how XmlSlurper..."

 P1.0
20-Mar-09
121
#35205: The last sentence of the second paragraph says, "Therefore, you must trap for it explicitly:" but I thing it should be "Therefore, you must as...more...
 B1.0
13-Oct-08
122
#35206: The first (only) sentence of second paragraph says, "... your query results can end up being looking like nonsense ..." and I strongly suspect...more...
 B1.0
13-Oct-08
126
#35207: There's a space missing between the end of the first sentence on the page and the start of the second. "... construct a valid GroovyBean from ...more...
 P1.0
13-Oct-08
152
#35208: The last sentence in the "Building the Query String from a Map" section refers the reader to Section 9.4, "Creating a Convenience QueryString ...more...
 B1.0
13-Oct-08
185
#35211: Last sentence of the first paragraph says, "It can yield unpredictable results if the getter or setter is doing anything other than directly s...more...
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13-Oct-08
212
#33359: On section 11.8 in the explanation of the code for the BookController, the text mentions the call to the controller "Bookstore.list" and it sh...more...
 P1.0
29-Jul-08
222
#35216: Last sentence in the first paragraph says, "The value that appears in the combo box is the toString method." Perhaps this should be "The valu...more...
 B1.0
13-Oct-08
228
#35218: The first sentence of the last paragraph in the "Render as XML" section says, "In this example, we'll leave off the parentheses on the render ...more...
 B1.0
13-Oct-08
236

#35219: The first (and only) paragraph on the page is composed of the same five sentences twice.--Burk Hufnagel

 B1.0
13-Oct-08