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From: "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
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Subject: Re: abbreviated generic syntax
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:33:52 -0000
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Roedy Green 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 );

It would greatly irritate those who think that the "new" generics stuff is of 
negative benefit, since now the compiler would be adding generics in /even when 
I hadn't asked for it/.

    -- chris