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		arrty88 on March 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference I've been doing List<String> list = new ArrayList<>(); Isn't that good enough?

the_af on March 10, 2016 | [–]

For your example, it makes no difference. However, take a look at the other example mentioned at the beginning:

    var stream = list.stream();   // infers Stream<String>

How would you write it in order to take advantage of type inference?

hyperpape on March 10, 2016 | [–]

No.

The List<String> is almost as redundant as the RHS <String> was.

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