Java Generics Syntax for arrays

Question

What data structure does the following declaration specify?

 List[] myArray;

I think it should declare an array where each

Answer 1

Mr Josh Bloch says:

"Prefer lists to array because arrays are covariant and generics are invariant'

You could perhaps do:

List> someListArray;

This may give some performance hit (not even noticable i bet) but you will get better type safety at compile time.

but I think the question should be more around "why" you need this?