CNI array syntax

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:

Bryce> Has a more natural syntax for creating java arrays from CNI
Bryce> ever been considered?

I haven't.  I don't think there's been a whole lot of thought about
how to evolve CNI.

Bryce> Today I wanted to do the equivilant of "new java.io.File[1]" in
Bryce> C++.  The code for this (afaik) is quite ugly:
Bryce> myfile = reinterpret_cast <JArray< ::java::io::File *>*>
Bryce> (JvNewObjectArray (1, &java::io::File::class$, f));

Bryce> But it should be able to be much more cleanly expressed as:
Bryce> myfile = new JArray<java::io::File *> (1);

Could you do this by adding `operator new' to JArray?  Maybe that
could encapsulate the ugliness without requiring a hack to g++.

Tom