RFR: 6260652: (coll) Arrays.asList(x).toArray().getClass() should be Object[].class

[Remi Forax]

oh, doh,
you're right :)

I still think that the right type is Class<? extends T[]>.

Rémi

On 06/27/2015 01:04 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr 
> <mailto:forax at univ-mlv.fr>> wrote:
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>     as a matter of style, i prefer to always have curly braces after
>     an 'if'
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> Community opinion is moving your way, but I am holding out.
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>     and i think that the cast to (Class<T[]>) is no longer needed
>     (and false if one day generics are fully reified because the right
>     type is Class<? extends T[]>).
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> """The actual result type is Class<? extends |X|> where |X| is the 
> erasure of the static type of the expression on which getClass is 
> called."""
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> But erased types can't contain "T".
>