Why no implicit cast for arrays of primitives????

[Harvinder Singh]

Hello,
Can anyone tell me why compiler doesn't implicit cast arrays
of primitives? Evenwhen a int can be promoted to float implicitly.
Thanks.

[Kashif Memon]

In Java Arrays are like objects and object needs explicit casting.

[Dan Chisholm]

Java does not allow an array with components of a primitive type to be cast to an array with components of a different primitive type, because the cast operation would require a change to the size of the array components.
Java does allow an array with components of a reference type to be cast to an array of a different component type as long as the component types can be legally converted based on the rules of reference conversions. Those conversions don't require a change in the size of the array components, because all reference values have the same size.