Section 20.7 Raw Types

• It’s possible to instantiate a generic class without specifying a type argument. In this case, the new object of the class is said to have a raw type (p. 857)—the compiler implicitly uses type Object (or the type parameter’s upper bound) throughout the generic class for each type argument.

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