Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 09:15:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 07:15:38 -0700 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Isn't an array to int primitive? References: <0e7f2c35-bdb5-4a35-b695-7a18dad4b567@f31g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <688dfa8b-c31d-4372-8210-e8417a821866@k27g2000pri.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.8.126.96 X-Trace: sv3-DcJJSb1On1G7/bp56ojzJXwgB9M6rV8qtSbnRdt57ATVmTGXdWeiZtiMbu5bj1aGQg903c0CQPZ9XrJ!PHZWFfMdGvlHOpYwfxClOrxSsFULO9cIRi0QPYrVIKTZBpMjKNO+4XjZTQ9IbrFGIpRE9zX0jPuU!o5rTxfd4tgvrIwoIaSlryBl9JTfyK//mfwrshLwasO4= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1884 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3853 On 5/9/2011 5:32 AM, Lew wrote: > byhesed wrote: ... >> Thank you for your link(JLS), but isn't it too old? > > No, it's current. The JLS is what *defines* the language. The other > references simply describe it. Thus, the JLS is the ultimate authority > on what is and is not legal in Java. And it should only change when the language itself changes. The age of the JLS says more about the degree of stability of Java than about the usefulness of the JLS. Patricia