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Result of assignment used

Reports assignment expressions nested inside other expressions to use the assigned value immediately.

Such expressions may be confusing and violating the general design principle that a given construct should do precisely one thing.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GroovyResultOfAssignmentUsed
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Groovy | Assignment issues

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Result of assignment used inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Inspect anonymous closures

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GroovyResultOfAssignmentUsed

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025