what is the point of heterogenous arrays?
- by aharon
I know that more-dynamic-than-Java languages, like Python and Ruby, often allow you to place objects of mixed types in arrays, like so:
["hello", 120, ["world"]]
What I don't understand is why you would ever use a feature like this. If I want to store heterogenous data in Java, I'll usually create an object for it.
For example, say a User has…