Object and array ref

[Ganesh Pujar]

Hi all

How is the following statement leagal?

  Object c = new long[4];  

As the C is a ref to Object (Not an array!, and anonymous array is agned to c)

[Mani Ram]

It is valid because, in Java, an array is an object. You can even invoke the methods defined in the Object class, on an array

    String[] x = new String [5];
    System.out.println ( x.toString() );
    System.out.println ( x.hashCode() );

[Ganesh Pujar]

    String[] x = new String [5];
Object c = x;
 
    System.out.println ( x.toString() );
    System.out.println ( x.hashCode() );

In the above case, how can we ref x[4] using c! (i think c[4] is not possible )