Re: Trying to create a generic array
lbrtchx@gmail.com wrote:
I am getting an "incompatible types" compile time error, even though
to me (and apparently to the compiler too) these are just three forms
to refer to the same class:
1) ai.class;
Classes are supposed to have names that begin with an upper-case letter.
2) Class.forName("ai");
3) ((Class.forName("ai")).newInstance()).getClass();
Class K = ai.class;
Class <Ai> k = Ai.class;
Or dispense with the variable and use 'Ai.class' directly.
System.out.println(K);
aiAr = g.createTypeAr(K, 8);
aiAr = g.createtypeAr( Ai.class, 8 );
System.out.println("// __ aiAr.length: |" + aiAr.length + "|");
gnrx10Test.java:47: incompatible types
found : java.lang.Object[]
Sure, because you passed a raw Class, which is equivalent to Class<?>, from
which the inference could only infer Object.
required: ai[]
aiAr = g.createTypeAr(K, 8);
^
Yes, because in your assignment to 'K' (variables are supposed to have names
that begin with a lower-case letter) you got rid of the type information by
not parameterizing the Class type.
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