j.ul.Objects follow-up: methods for var-argification? (original) (raw)

Joseph D. Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Thu Oct 8 18:34:32 UTC 2009


Hello.

In the discussion about java.util.Objects, a few existing JDK methods were mentioned for possible var-argification:

java.util.Arrays.hashCode(Object[] a) java.util.Arrays.deepHashCode(Object[] a) java.util.Arrays.toString(Object[] a)

Also of possible general interest are some methods on String (bug 6762452 API change proposal: Enhance String constructor for varargs)

java.lang.String.copyValueOf(char[] data) java.lang.String.valueOf(char[] data) java.lang.String(char[] value)

Var-argification is fully binary compatible and is generally source compatible, although new conversions are allowed of course and overloadings may change.

-Joe



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