arrays of generic types

[Peter Ashford]

Eclipse tells me that arrays of generic types are not legal, e.g.: it
won't allow the following:

QuadTree<MyNodeType> [] allQuadTrees;

Anyone know why this is the case?

 

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

Eclipse tells me that arrays of generic types are not legal, e.g.: it
won't allow the following:

QuadTree<MyNodeType> [] allQuadTrees;

Do you use a version of Eclipse that supports JDK 1.5/5.0?

From http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/index.html:

"J2SE 1.5 support was *not* officially scheduled for Eclipse 3.0
release, since J2SE 1.5 was not finalized before 3.0 release date,
and we did not want to jeopardize the 3.0 release by integrating
beta quality tooling. In parallel to the 3.0 effort, we were still
implementing an experimental version of JDT Core with 1.5 support
(mostly focusing on adding generics support to Eclipse Java
compiler). You may find details and previews of our ongoing effort
(codename "Cheetah") in our update area."

However, it seems this "experimental" support has been improved in
3.0.1 which is the latest public release.

 

[IchBin]

Eclipse tells me that arrays of generic types are not legal, e.g.: it
won't allow the following:

QuadTree<MyNodeType> [] allQuadTrees;

Anyone know why this is the case?

Depends on what version of eclipse you are running. Also they do not
have full JDK 1.5 support yet.

Better to Post to Eclipse newsgroup: news.eclipse.org's eclipse.platform

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Thanks in Advance...
IchBin
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[Peter Ashford]

Eclipse tells me that arrays of generic types are not legal, e.g.: it
won't allow the following:

QuadTree<MyNodeType> [] allQuadTrees;

Do you use a version of Eclipse that supports JDK 1.5/5.0?

From http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/index.html:

"J2SE 1.5 support was *not* officially scheduled for Eclipse 3.0
release, since J2SE 1.5 was not finalized before 3.0 release date,
and we did not want to jeopardize the 3.0 release by integrating
beta quality tooling. In parallel to the 3.0 effort, we were still
implementing an experimental version of JDT Core with 1.5 support
(mostly focusing on adding generics support to Eclipse Java
compiler). You may find details and previews of our ongoing effort
(codename "Cheetah") in our update area."

However, it seems this "experimental" support has been improved in
3.0.1 which is the latest public release.

I'm using the cheetah plugin which provides generics support. Eclipse
is not complaining about the use of generics - my code is littered with
it - it is complaing just about arrays of generic types.