A new helper method Arrays.asArray

[timo.kinnunen at gmail.com]

The same issue is present even without any varargs or generics present, when using plain old arrays:

		String[] list1 = new String[1];
		list1[0] = "hello";
		Integer[] list2 = new Integer[1];
		list2[0] = 1;
		String[][] array = {list1, null};
		Object[][] array2 = array;
		array2[1] = list2;
		for(String[] l : array) {
			System.out.println(l[0]);
		}

Both issues stem from these unsafe implicit conversions which don’t get a warning:

 	private static List<?>[] implicit1(List<String>[] it) {
		return it;
	}

	private static Object[][] implicit2(String[][] it) {
		return it;
	}


I don’t like these conversions either but I don’t see them directly relevant to introducing an Arrays.asArray()-method.

If you want to try to introduce mandatory warnings for these conversions I will definitely cheer you on!






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