I have a question on Generic List and Primitive Array (Not ArrayList) what is my question is As array & Generic List are Strong type at compile time so why do we need generics as the array will do same work as Generics.
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I have a question on Generic List and Primitive Array (Not ArrayList) what is my question is As array & Generic List are Strong type at compile time so why do we need generics as the array will do same work as Generics.
Thanks
The generic array allows you to have a variable length array. For a normal array you have to declare it as
int[3]for example, saying there are 3 elements in it. Alist<int>does not have this limitation.Also, a list has several other methods which can come in handy, for example sorting.