Common Super Type for Boxed Types and Array Types

[Suminda Sirinath Salpitikorala Dharmasena]

Hello,

Correcting some typos in my previous email.

Some of the boxed types device directly from Object. Also, the array types
derive from Object.

This is sometimes inconvenient when pacifying API signatures and bounds.

So is it possible to consider a hierarchy like:

- Any???
  - Object
    - Boxed<T>
      - BoxedPrimitive<T>
        - Number<T>
          - Integer
          - ...
        - Boolean
        - Character
     - BoxedValueType<T> // or BoxedValue<T>
    - Array<T>
      - ArrayPrimitive<T>
        - ArrayNumber<T>
          - int[]
          - ...
        - boolean[]
        - character[]
      - ArrayObject<T>
  - Value // May have another name
    - ValuePrimitive<T> // T when there are primitive generics in the
language
      - ValueNumber<T>
        - int
        - ...
      - boolean
      - char

Suminda

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