Hello Gurus, I am not able to understand the following bit from JVM spec v2.0 which talks about permitted narrowing reference conversions:
*From any class type S to any interface type K, provided that S is not final and does not implement K. (An important special case is that there is a narrowing conversion from the class type Object to any interface type.) * Can somebody please let me know how to correctly interpret this? In what cases, do we come across the need to use such a feature ? an example would be most helpful. This bit is taken from the following links : http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#32879 or here http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/conversions.doc.html#25379 thanks in advance, Rohit