Pattern: Explicit call to and()
Issue: -
This rule detects when the and(Object) method is called directly in code instead of using the & operator. A groovier way to express this: a.and(b) is this: a & b. This rule can be configured to ignore this.and(Object) using the ignoreThisReference property. It defaults to true, so even and(x) will not trigger a violation. The default is true because and appears commonly in Grails criteria.
This rule also ignores all calls to super.and(Object).