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Array[Null] and Array[Nothing] should be disallowed #7453

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scabug opened this issue May 4, 2013 · 5 comments
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Array[Null] and Array[Nothing] should be disallowed #7453

scabug opened this issue May 4, 2013 · 5 comments
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scabug commented May 4, 2013

See the discussion of #5353 for motivation.

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scabug commented May 4, 2013

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7453?orig=1
Reporter: @xeno-by

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scabug commented Apr 9, 2014

@retronym said:
From #8487

scala> if (false) Array("") else Array.empty
 
java.lang.ClassCastException: [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.String;

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scabug commented Apr 10, 2014

@Atry said:

scala> Array.empty[Nothing]: Array[_ <: String]
java.lang.ClassCastException: [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.String;

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scabug commented Sep 29, 2016

@Atry said:
Would it possible to erase {{Array[_ <: String]}} to {{Any}} instead of {{Array[String]}}?

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joroKr21 commented Sep 4, 2017

This problem also manifests itself in interop with Java vararg methods:

scala> java.nio.file.Paths.get("/", Nil: _*)
java.lang.ClassCastException: [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.String;

However, I guess here the offending array is inserted by the compiler after the typer phase.
Should (xs: Seq[Nothing]): _* also be disallowed?

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