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Re: syntax of "new"; packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Graham)
Mon May 1 18:31:38 1995
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:19:53 -0700
From: flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Graham)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Jeremy,
> In browser/hotjava.java, it uses the syntax "new String[12]". Is
> this the same as "new String()[12]"? It seems a little odd that
> a new of just an object must have argument parens, even if empty,
> but making an array of them doesn't explicitly require them.
You misunderstand. That statement is creating a new array, not
a new String object or array of new String objects. The elements
in that array will all initially be null and you can only store
either null, a String object, or some instance of a subclass of
String into its elements.
I'll your other questions to someone more familiar with the internals
of our compiler syntax...
...jim
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