Description R Lenard 2004-11-08 01:12:11 EST

I read somewhere that creation of generic arrays is not allowed and the results 
of JAVAC seem to confirm this.
% cat X.java
public class X
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Comparable<String>[] X = {
        };
        System.err.println("X.toString() " + X.toString());

        Comparable<String>[] Y = new Comparable<String>[] {
        };
     }
}
% javac X.java
c:/Eclipse/Fooey/src/X.java:4: generic array creation
        Comparable<String>[] X = {
                                 ^
c:/Eclipse/Fooey/src/X.java:8: generic array creation
        Comparable<String>[] Y = new Comparable<String>[] {
                                                          ^
2 errors

However 3.1M3 doesn't detect the first as a problem.