array and diamond (original) (raw)

maurizio cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Sat Dec 10 11:38:22 UTC 2011

On 09-Dec-11 10:56 PM, Rémi Forax wrote:

Is there a reason why the diamond syntax can't be used with an array ?

List<?>[] list = new List<>[12]; Because the current inference rules would end up inferring:

List<?>[] list = new List[12];

If you special-cased diamond on arrays so that it is inferred as:

List[] list = new List[12];

Then it would be safe.

Maurizio

Rémi

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