Editing Apache Groovy (section)

===Dot and parentheses===
Groovy's syntax permits omitting parentheses and dots in some situations. The following groovy code

<syntaxhighlight lang="groovy">
take(coffee).with(sugar, milk).and(liquor)
</syntaxhighlight>

can be written as

<syntaxhighlight lang="groovy">
take coffee with sugar, milk and liquor
</syntaxhighlight>

enabling the development of [[domain-specific language]]s (DSLs) that look like plain English.