Common Ancestor to Java Array and List

Question

In .NET, both array and list have Enumerable as ancestor, so a method that accept Enumerable as an argument can receive both array and list as its argument. I wonder if ther

Answer 1

Basically, arrays have an implicit type that is a subclass of object. See Arrays in the JLS:

   public static void main(String[] args) {
            int[] ia = new int[3];
            System.out.println(ia.getClass());
            System.out.println(ia.getClass().getSuperclass());
   }

   > class [I
   > class java.lang.Object

The way arrays and lists are handled is also not the same when we consider covariance/contravariance.

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