Why cannot I write "Map<String,String> m = (Map<>)obj"?

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Wed Jul 25 02:11:11 PDT 2012

Previous message: hg: jdk8/tl/jdk: 7184287: (prefs) BackingStoreException when calling flush on root node[macosx]
Next message: Why cannot I write "Map<String,String> m = (Map<>)obj"?
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Just curious, if obj is of type Object, and I want to cast it to 
Map<String,String>, why cannot I use the diamond operator?

Thanks
Max

Previous message: hg: jdk8/tl/jdk: 7184287: (prefs) BackingStoreException when calling flush on root node[macosx]
Next message: Why cannot I write "Map<String,String> m = (Map<>)obj"?
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

More information about the compiler-dev mailing list