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Many of them are possible in theory. Few are implemented in practice, and even fewer apply in code found in the wild.

e.g. promoting an Integer[] array to an int[] array is something that Java will not do, although in some cases it is theoretically possible (and LuaJIT2 comes close to doing something equivalent).




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