Userland autoboxing?

Question

Is it possible to implement autoboxing for your own classes?

To illustrate my example, this is what I might want to write:

Foo foo = \"lolcat\";
         


        

Answer 1

No, java does not support operator overloading (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_overloading).

Autoboxing is a compiler feature and not available for your own classes.

The reasoning is explained here: http://www.cafeaulait.org/javafaq.html#xtocid1902938