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The following items need documentation.

When documenting, please create a page for each and link to it.
<ul>
	<li>Generics</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GROOVY/Closures" data-linked-resource-id="11403308" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Closures" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Closures</a>
	<ul>
		<li>Closure's variable resolving strategy</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li>Joint Groovy/Java compiler, and its options and impact on the Groovyc Ant task</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li>Explain the new Foo(a:1, b:2) shortcut notation calls setA() and setB() after new Foo() is created and initialized, and that this is not an atomic thread-safe operation</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li>Type handling
	<ul>
		<li>'as' keyword with its different meanings</li>
		<li>conversion vs coercion vs autoboxing</li>
		<li>closure and map coercion to interfaces and classes</li>
		<li>general typing approach (explicit static typing vs duck typing)</li>
		<li>static methods called from instances (see GROOVY-1706)</li>
		<li>Conversion rules, in all their complexity</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GROOVY/Swing+Builder" data-linked-resource-id="78174" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Swing Builder" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Swing Builder</a></li>
	<li>more builder documentation - <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GROOVY/Builders" data-linked-resource-id="16958" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Builders" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Builders</a></li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li>Scoping
	<ul>
		<li>handling of &quot;return, break, and continue&quot;</li>
		<li>open blocks vs closed blocks</li>
		<li>Name scoping rules</li>
		<li>scoping rules for Closures</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li>method dispatch algorithm</li>
	<li>Method calls and property references, in all their complexity</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li>'special' variables like -'owner' in Closures-, 'out' in Groovlets etc.</li>
	<li>Class member naming conventions, and other JVM interfaces</li>
</ul>

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