Proposal: Type inference for variable definition/initialization using the 'auto' keyword.

[alexandre.makarenko at free.fr]

exactly ;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Thornton" <mthornton at optrak.co.uk>
To: "alex" <alexandre.makarenko at free.fr>
Cc: "Tim Lebedkov" <tim.lebedkov at googlemail.com>, coin-dev at openjdk.java.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 11:31:32 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
Subject: Re: Proposal: Type inference for variable definition/initialization using the 'auto' keyword.

alex wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> a little bit late comment...
>
> what if 
>
> Map<String, List<String>> anagrams();
>
> compiled as
>
> Map<String, List<String>> anagrams = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
>
>   
Why HashMap and not some other implementation of Map? That approach only 
works if the LHS specifies a concrete type and not an interface or 
abstract class.

Mark Thornton