bug with varargs and overloading?
- by pstanton
There seems to be a bug in the Java varargs implementation. Java can't distinguish the appropriate type when a method is overloaded with different types of vararg parameters.
It gives me an error The method ... is ambiguous for the type ...
Consider the following code:
public class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable
{
doit(new int[]{1, 2}); // <- no problem
doit(new double[]{1.2, 2.2}); // <- no problem
doit(1.2f, 2.2f); // <- no problem
doit(1.2d, 2.2d); // <- no problem
doit(1, 2); // <- The method doit(double[]) is ambiguous for the type Test
}
public static void doit(double... ds)
{
System.out.println("doubles");
}
public static void doit(int... is)
{
System.out.println("ints");
}
}
the docs say: "Generally speaking, you should not overload a varargs method, or it will be difficult for programmers to figure out which overloading gets called."
however they don't mention this error, and it's not the programmers that are finding it difficult, it's the compiler.
thoughts?
