The article is very confused in general about multidimensional arrays (which are really just arrays of array references in Java). It’s badly written and IMO doesn’t deserve to be on the HN front page.
The author seems to have expectations that Java multidimensional arrays violate, and seems to assume the reader would also have those expectations, but they just seem confused to me.
The author seems to have expectations that Java multidimensional arrays violate, and seems to assume the reader would also have those expectations, but they just seem confused to me.
Except for TFA’s mention of the bytecode instructions and trailing comma, the classic tutorial article is much better: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/ar...