Function types versus arrays

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:
> I do not think this is a good idea. It violates the principle of least
> astonishment by sacrificing a fundamental truth of the language ("casting an
> object reference to an object reference type does not change its identity).

By the way, do you feel that an assignment conversion from one
reference type to another reference type should preserve identity too?