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hawleyal on Dec 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java Doesn’t Suck

List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>()

Please make me type more redundant words.

esfandia on Dec 3, 2014 | [–]

It's a bit better since JDK1.7 introduced a modicum of type inference:

  List<String> list = new ArrayList<>()

jryle80 on Dec 3, 2014 | [–]

Came with generics which was introduced in Java 5.

No longer true with Java 7

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