Array problem

[Pramod P Deore]

package arrayTest;

class ObjArrayTest
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
int[] x = new int[3];
int[][] a = {{1,2},{3}};
Object c = new long[3];
Object d = x;
//Object[] e = x;//Error; Why?please expalin it in brief.



String[] z;
Object[] s = z;/*Error; in K&B they say that this code compile but compiler said that variable z might not have been initialized ; please exaplai it in brief*/
}
}

[Punit Singh]

Object[] e = x; //Error; Why? please expalin it in brief.


As x is of type int[], means array of primitive int. And int is neither an object nor a subclass of Object. So it cannot covert int[] to Object[] or Integer[].

String[] z;
Object[] s = z; /*Error; in K&B they say that this code compile but compiler said that variable z might not have been initialized ; please exaplai it in brief*/

K&B does not say this.
If you write this code inside a method, you have to initialize z.
But if you write this code inside a class, but not in a method or not in any initializer block then initialization of z to null is automatically done for you by compiler.

try this one:
class Test{
String[] z;
Object[] s = z;
}

now try this one:


class Test{
{String[] z;
Object[] s = z;}
}

one more:


class Test{
static {String[] z;
Object[] s = z;}
}

[Ankit Garg]

A primitive array can be assigned to a reference of type Object

int[] arr = {1};
Object obj = arr; //OK