hamcrest-java — Discussion for users of the Java Ham Crest library

[Hamcrest-java] Why the name hamcrest?

[David S. <sa...@mi...>]

The internet isn't helping me out here.  What is the significance of the 
name hamcrest?

    David Saff

[Hamcrest-java] Type safety : A generic array of Matcher<String> is created for a varargs parameter

[David S. <sa...@mi...>]

Hello, hamcrest developers.

I was excited to see this project--I'd written my own genericized 
versions of JMock asserts in the past, but hadn't ever had the time to 
publish or support it.

I downloaded and compiled, and discovered that you've run into a similar 
problem that I've had with my efforts in the past.  There are 19 
compiler warnings with the basic text of:

Type safety : A generic array of Matcher<String> is created for a 
varargs parameter

With Eclipse 3.2 out of the box.  In the past, I've never found a really 
satisfying way around this problem, which Java could have easily solved 
by using either a typesafe or read-only datatype for desugaring varargs 
parameters.  I was wondering how you address it / ignore it in your 
workspace.  Thanks,

    David