Re: abbreviated generic syntax
On 2/18/2013 7:20 AM, Arne Vajhoej wrote:
On 2/18/2013 4:41 AM, Barb Knox wrote:
In article <0h93i8pcopf17145fus96g7vams86hocat@4ax.com>,
Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
In generics in Java 1.7 you can abbreviate
ArrayList<String> a = new ArrayList<String>( 100 );
as
ArrayList<String> a = new ArrayList<>( 100 );
Would any code have broken if you abbreviated like this instead:
ArrayList<String> a = new ArrayList( 100 );
If not, why the <>?
I expect that a "new ArrayList(100)" returns an ArrayList of Objects.
It returns a raw ArrayList not an ArrayList<Object>.
The difference is small but it is there.
I believe the classic example is:
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class RawVsObject {
public static void m1(ArrayList al) {
}
public static void m2(ArrayList<Object> al) {
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ArrayList<String> al = null;
m1(al);
m2(al);
}
}
where the call to m1 is OK but the call to m2 gives a compiler
error.
Arne
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