Introduction to OOP Chapter 18: Generics : next previous audio real text

Inheritance and Arrays

Can make a similar argument for arrays: 
BoyChild [ ] boys = new BoyChild[10];

Person [ ] people = boys;  // copy or pointer semantics?

GirlChild sally = new GirlChild;

people[1] = sally;
If pointer semantics are used for the array assignment then this can produce type errors. Java allows the assignment, but uses a run-time check to catch the last assignment error!

Other languages make the array assignment illegal.

Intro OOP, Chapter 18, Slide 08