NewInstance

Recently I got surprised by following case.

In Java you can declare an array in following valid ways:

String[] strings = new String[] { "foo", "bar" };
// the above is equivalent to the following:
String[] strings = { "foo", "bar" };

So following Java code is perfectly valid:

public class Foo {

    public void doSomething(String[] arg) {}

    public void example() {
        String[] strings = { "foo", "bar" };
        doSomething(strings);
    }

}

Is there any valid reason why, instead, the following code shouldn't be valid?

public class Foo {

    public void doSomething(String[] arg) {}

    public void example() {
        doSomething({ "foo", "bar" });
    }

}

I think, that the above syntax would have been a valid substitute to the varargs introduced in Java 5. And, more coherent with the previously allowed array declarations.