15.28.1 needs some polish ?

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 19/02/13 11:33, Srikanth S Adayapalam wrote:
> > From: Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
> > Subject: Re: 15.28.1 needs some polish ?
>
> > > The spec is silent on generic array creation and 8b74 allows:
> > Whoops - I believe the language should be consistent here - array
> > creation is not any safer if it happens through method reference, so 
> the
> > code deserves an unchecked warning.
>
> Note that direct array creation is an error, not a warning.
>
> Srikanth. 
Right - but we also have cases (in varargs) where indirect array 
creation is treated as warning. I guess in my mind this looked closer to 
the latter (as no array is created if the mref is never called) but I 
could see this going either way.

Maurizio