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Re: abbreviated generic syntax

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On 2/17/2013 10:26 PM, 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 );
>
> If not, why the <>?
>


hell, why not:
ArrayList<String> a(100);
?...

and maybe also:
int[256] arr;
or:
int arr[256];

as a shorthand for:
int[] arr=new int[256];


granted, probably isn't going to happen...

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abbreviated generic syntax Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-17 20:26 -0800
  Re: abbreviated generic syntax Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-02-18 01:02 -0800
  Re: abbreviated generic syntax Barb Knox <see@sig.below> - 2013-02-18 22:41 +1300
    Re: abbreviated generic syntax Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2013-02-18 12:58 +0200
    Re: abbreviated generic syntax Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-18 07:20 -0500
      Re: abbreviated generic syntax Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-18 07:27 -0500
  Re: abbreviated generic syntax Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-18 07:23 -0500
  Re: abbreviated generic syntax "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-02-18 19:33 +0000
  Re: abbreviated generic syntax BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-18 13:46 -0600
  Re: abbreviated generic syntax Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 12:29 -0800
    Re: abbreviated generic syntax Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-02-18 22:49 +0100
      Re: abbreviated generic syntax Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 13:51 -0800
    Re: abbreviated generic syntax Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-18 15:35 -0800
      Re: abbreviated generic syntax lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-02-19 08:56 +0000
        Re: abbreviated generic syntax lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-02-19 12:30 +0000
      Re: abbreviated generic syntax Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-02-19 16:21 +0000
      Re: abbreviated generic syntax Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-02-19 11:38 -0600
      Re: abbreviated generic syntax Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-19 12:45 -0500
        Re: abbreviated generic syntax BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-19 15:20 -0600

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