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== Variadic functions in C# and Java ==

Other languages, such as [[C Sharp|C#]] and [[Java (programming language)|Java]] use a different approach - —they just allow that a variable number of arguments of the same (super)type may be passed to a variadic function. Inside the method they are simply collected in an [[array]].

This feature, called "varargs", has been present in Java since [[Java Platform, Standard Edition#Nomenclature, standards and specifications|J2SE 5.0]]. Using [[autoboxing]], this can also be used to pass [[Primitive type|primitive]] arguments to for example a print function, as can be seen in the Java example below:

public static void printSpaced(Object... objects) {