auto binding (type inference) of generic types by the compiler

Question

the following code has compilation error in the line of t3:

public  List getList()
{
    return new ArrayList();
}
public  vo         


        

Answer 1

The getList() method seems to be returning a new list each time which is initially empty. get(0) from an empty list will throw an IllegalArgumentException. This is a runtime error though so it may not be causing the compile error.