Comments on: Syntactic sugar and Java arrays. http://en.newinstance.it/2010/01/08/syntactic-sugar-and-java-arrays/ Welcome to the official blog of Luigi R. Viggiano. Beware of imitations. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luigi http://en.newinstance.it/2010/01/08/syntactic-sugar-and-java-arrays/comment-page-1/#comment-389807 Luigi Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:34:42 +0000 http://en.newinstance.it/2010/01/08/syntactic-sugar-and-java-arrays/#comment-389807 I am just saying that there's no logical reason why that shouldn't compile. >why should he know it’s a string array in the first place? > ... >but how should he know, that what you are giving in is really such a type exactly as the compiler does for the assignation (without needing any cast): String[] strings = { "foo", "bar" }; I am just saying that there’s no logical reason why that shouldn’t compile.

>why should he know it’s a string array in the first place?
> …
>but how should he know, that what you are giving in is really such a type

exactly as the compiler does for the assignation (without needing any cast):

String[] strings = { “foo”, “bar” };

]]> By: jan http://en.newinstance.it/2010/01/08/syntactic-sugar-and-java-arrays/comment-page-1/#comment-382341 jan Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:21:13 +0000 http://en.newinstance.it/2010/01/08/syntactic-sugar-and-java-arrays/#comment-382341 sure it is not valid...try the following: doSomething(new String[] {"foo","bar"}); why should he know it's a string array in the first place? ok it's defined by the method doSomething...but how should he know, that what you are giving in is really such a type :) sure it is not valid…try the following:
doSomething(new String[] {“foo”,”bar”});

why should he know it’s a string array in the first place? ok it’s defined by the method doSomething…but how should he know, that what you are giving in is really such a type :)

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