Depends on which grammar you believe in. There exists English grammars
which favour "he or she" over "they" for a singular referent of unknown
gender, and some of those grammar are probably pretty "old" too (no idea
if they are mostly older than the grammars which favour "they" or not).

   I'll switch back and forth between "he or she" and "they" depending on
my mood.

   - Oliver

For the record, I guess .... :

Look, I'm aware that use of "they" as a singular pronoun
is accepted usage in some circles and that there is a case
to be made for it.  (I also hang out in alt.usage.english.)
To me it feels wrong, however, and I doubt that any amount
of reasoned argument is going to change that.  I say let's
agree to differ.

public class Test4 {
 public static Object[]
makeArrayOfObjectsWhoseSizeIsDeterminedAtRuntimeWithoutALoop(int size) {
   if (size < 0) {
     throw new IllegalArgumentException();
   }
   if (size == 0) {
     return new Object[0];
   }
   Object[] returnValue = new Object[size];
   returnValue[0] = new Object();
   System.arraycopy(makeArrayOfObjectsWhoseSizeIsDeterminedAtRuntimeWithoutALoop(size
- 1), 0, returnValue, 1, size - 1);
   return returnValue;
 }
}

   Or, since array indexes must be java integer, and there's a finite
number of them:

public class Test4 {
 public static Object[]
makeArrayOfObjectsWhoseSizeIsDeterminedAtRuntimeWithoutALoop(
     int size) {
   switch (size) {
   case 0:
     return new Object[] {};
   case 1:
     return new Object[] { new Object() };
   case 2:
     return new Object[] { new Object(), new Object() };

   /*etc.*/

   default:
     throw new IllegalArgumentException();
   }
 }
}

   - Oliver