array and diamond (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Sun Dec 11 11:16:55 UTC 2011

On 10/12/2011 8:56 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:

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

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

It can in Java 7. That's the bug that we just discussed in regard to the java.util.concurrent code cleanup where I suggested to use:

HashEntry<K,V>[] newTable = new HashEntry<>[1];

to avoid the explicit cast. ;-)

David

Rémi