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18.02.2013 11:41, Barb Knox kirjoitti:
> 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 has an storage arrangement for 100 object references (and Strings ARE
Objects), but it does not allocate any Objecs nor Strings in that
initialization.

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