Java generics and varargs

Question

I\'d like to implement a function with both generics and varargs.

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Answer 1

Jon Skeet's answer is (of course) correct; I'll expand on it a little by pointing out that you CAN get rid of this warning, with a big 'if'. You can avoid this warning IF you're willing to commit to having your project build using Java 7.

Bob Lee wrote a proposal to let this warning be suppressed at method-declaration site, rather than usage site, as part of Project Coin.

This proposal was accepted for JDK7 (though the syntax changed slightly, to @SuppressWarnings("varargs")); you can, if you're curious, look at the commit that added this support to the JDK.

Not necessarily helpful for you, but I thought I'd make this a separate answer so it lives on for future readers, who may be lucky enough to live in a post-Java-7 world.