Hello,

I am somewhat curious about the following compile time error:

incompatible types for ?: neither is a subtype of the other

which I am getting in the following situation. Consider:

FooA fooA = new FooA(); // FooA is a subclass of Foo
FooB fooB = new FooB(); // FooB is a subclass of Foo

Foo foo;

foo = fooA == foo() ? fooA : fooB;  // foo() returns an instance of Foo

This compiler error goes away when I write the somewhat longer:

FooA fooA = new FooA(); // FooA is a subclass of Foo
FooB fooB = new FooB(); // FooB is a subclass of Foo

Foo foo;

if (fooA == foo()) {  // foo() returns an instance of Foo
 foo = fooA;
}
else {
 foo = fooB;
}

Anyone know the reason for this compiler peculiarity (using J2SE
1.5.0_06).

Thanks,

JG