ArrayList Generic without Type

Question

recently I read a piece of code which seems weird to me. As we know, we need to initialize the generic type in collections when we need to use them. Also, we know Collection

Answer 1

Generics were added to Java only in Java 5. Before that, when you use a collection, it always meant collection of objects. The old syntax is left as is for backward compatibility. So ArrayList result = new ArrayList() is actually creating an ArrayList