Question about the requirements

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Hello codegym colleagues! I tried to run the code with List<String> stringX = new ArrayList<String>(); but it kept on failing. Once I have changed the line to an ArrayList - ArrayList<String> stringX = new ArrayList<String>(); it passed. Shouldn't the requirement be to create an ArrayList rather than a list? This was confusing as in the previous exercise we used a list by declaring it private static List<String> strings; I fell like sometimes that the requirements are not well explained. Does anyone else feel the same?

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Nouser

Level 36 , Germany

10 December 2020, 07:05

In the syntax quest the validator is really strict. Later it gets somewhat better. Here I assume that CodeGym relies on you following their hint on the Practice with ArrayList task page: Hint 3: 'Create a list of strings' most often means the following: ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();

Mihai Bone

Level 8 , Bucharest, Romania

9 December 2020, 21:04

I think it will work this way also, there is a difference if you start with List or with ArrayList (I don't know it i'm to lazy to google it)

ArrayList<String> stringX = new  ArrayList<String>();