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HashBiMap<Character, Integer> charOcc = HashBiMap.<Character, Integer> create();
What does this mean? HashBiMap<Character, Integer> charOcc = HashBiMap.<Character, Integer> create();
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HashBiMap<Character, Integer> charOcc = HashBiMap.<Character, Integer> create();
create()is a generic method. Since it’s static and has no parameters (hence no type inference), the only way you can tell it what the generic parameters are is by that strange-looking.<Character, Integer>syntax.Edit: This is actually not necessary in this specific case; the compiler can infer the generic types from the left-hand side. But it is sometimes necessary in other cases, such as this question: Generic method in Java without generic argument