Notes on implementing concise calls to constructors with type parameters

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 15.05.2009 02:15, Alex Buckley schrieb:
> Ulf Zibis wrote:
>>> Obviously dropping raw types has an impact anywhere that type names 
>>> can be used. Since that's every class, interface, and variable 
>>> declaration, I'm not sure we need to spend much time calculating how 
>>> it would affect people moving pre-1.5 code to 1.7 - it obviously 
>>> stops them cold.
>>
>> It should have stopped them more cold in experiencing a consequently 
>> occurring CCE at runtime.  ;-)
>
> Which they knew might happen because of the unchecked warning at the 
> assignment, giving them a chance to identify potential heap pollution 
> and upgrade certain uses of raw types at their own pace.
>

With this same argument, following code should similar output a warning 
instead of a compile time error:

int i;
...
if (i == 7) {  // error: variable not initialized
   ...
}

-Ulf