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Sonntag, 23. Februar 2003

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Primitive Collections for Java

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earl 7970 days AGO
and those hacks will even survive tiger. unless the upcoming generics support embraces primitives ...

stephan schmidt 7969 days AGO
I think 1.5 supports transparent primitive wrapping,

javangelist.snipsnap.org/space/2003-02-06

earl 7969 days AGO
ah yes, i forgot :) and if i get that draft right, only autoboxing is supported (no automatic unboxing). so:

Vector<Integer> v = new Vector<Integer>;
int a = 4;
v.add( a ); // works - autoboxing
a = v.get( 0 ); // faults - no autounboxing
a = (int) v.get( 0 ); // works - explicit unboxing

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