Understand the limits of autoboxing, e.g., why Character [] C = new char [] { ’ a ’ , ’b’}; will not compile

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I was unable to understand this line in chapter on Primitive Types(Pg 45):

Understand the limits of autoboxing, e.g., why Character [] C = new
char [] { ’ a ’ , ’b’}; will not compile.

I want to know the reason behind this and other limitations of autoboxing.

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Hi @abhishall,

In Java, arrays are reference types and there are no autoboxing for arrays. No boxing is required here.

Hope this helps!

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