Java. Input array in function without initialising the array

Question

I want to pass a int[][][] to a method points_of_game (and a int[][]) without first initialising the int[][][] as another variable.

My Code :

int[][] original_map = new int[9][9];
int[][] current_map = new int[9][9];
int[][] initial_map = new int[9][3];
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// INITIALISING THE int[][][] WITH THE VARIABLE return_maps WHICH I WANT TO AVOID.
int[][][] return_maps = {this.original_map, this.current_map};
points_of_game(return_maps, this.initial_map);

What I want:

int[][] original_map = new int[9][9];
int[][] current_map = new int[9][9];
int[][] initial_map = new int[9][3];
.....
.....
.....
// SOMETHING SIMILAR TO BELOW.
points_of_game({this.original_map, this.current_map}, this.initial_map);

Answer 1

I think you want:

points_of_game(new int[][][]{this.original_map, this.current_map}, this.initial_map);

Or if you change you method signature to:

points_of_game(int[][] initial, int[][]... boards) {
    // boards has type int[][][]
}

You can call it like this:

points_of_game(this.initial_map, this.original_map, this.current_map);