Use primitive arrays in place of Array<T>

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Honestly, I think we really talk about the same thing here :smiley: I mean a very similar class to yours, but just implementing List/MutableList instead of ArrayWrapper. I don’t see benefits of ArrayWrapper and benefits of implementing a list are pretty obvious.

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List is read only
MutableList has to, by spec, be able to grow in size.
An array fits neither of their descriptions.

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It doesn’t. Methods that would change the size can instead throw UnsupportedOperationException. That’s exactly what that exception was intended for; and it’s what e.g. Java’s Arrays.asList() does.

Of course, a MutableList isn’t a perfect match for a wrapped array. But it could still work.

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