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From: Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Problem with generics and dynamic array copy
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:36:25 +0200
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Am 22.07.2011 20:23, schrieb markspace:
> On 7/22/2011 10:30 AM, Sebastian wrote:
>
>>> public static final <T> T[] arraycopy( T[] src )
>>> {
>>> Class<T> componentType = src.getClass().getComponentType(); // !!!!
>
>
> RTFM. getComponentType() returns Class<?>, not Class<T>.
>
> <http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#getComponentType%28%29>
>
>
> public Class<?> getComponentType()
>
> Returns the Class representing the component type of an array. If this
> class does not represent an array class this method returns null.
>

well, yes, but given that src.getClass() must give one the class object
for arrays with component type T, why is the compiler not smart enough 
to infer that the unknown class parameter in the return value of
getComponentType() must be T? As a human I can see that, that's why I
can cast to Class<T>, but I don't believe that I'm smarter than javac...

-- Sebastian