For example, the JavaAPIRef(util, Arrays, sort(java.lang.object[])) accepts an
array of objects rather than an array of Comparables. It's not clear why this
is so; the sort is eventually going to downcast the array elements to
Comparables, which means a successful sort required an array of Comparables.
Replacing sort(Object []) with sort(Comparable []) would seem to be
backwards compatible, at least for the successful cases.
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