Re: Is clone a member function for array types?

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>

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Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:41:09 -0800

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tam@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:

On Dec 3, 12:22 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:02:51 -0800 (PST), t...@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing?

My guess is arrays are handled as a special case. For example you can
iterate over them with for:each even though they don't implement
Iterable.
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The JLS explicitly mentions that arrays can be iterated over in the
enhanced for loop. Unless there is something I'm missing here [which
is quite likely but I'd like to know what it is], there seems to be a
clear incompatibility between the JLS specification of array members
and Class.getMethods results for arrays. There's nothing I've found
in the documentation that suggests arrays should be handled specially
here.

Regards,
Tom McGlynn

array.length is actually a special JVM instruction, not a field access.

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