3. The simple Groovy datatypes

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

—Albert Einstein

Groovy supports a limited set of datatypes at the language level; that is, it offers means for literal declaration and specialized operators. This set contains the simple datatypes for strings, regular expressions, and numbers, as well as the collective datatypes for ranges, lists, and maps. This chapter covers the simple datatypes; the next chapter introduces the collective datatypes.