Initializing List with an array in Java

Initializing Lists

Why is this

List<Integer> a = new List<Integer>({1,2,3})

not possible?

Simple workaround

class ListInit {
    public static void main(String args[]){
	List<Integer> a = Arrays.asList(1,2,3);
    }
}

but,

Is it not possible to initialize a List with an array literal?

It is!

That means Arrays.asList() should work with an array literal.

But the below doesn’t work.

List<Integer> a = Arrays.asList({1,2,3});

Although this does with the ’new’ keyword.

List<Integer> a = Arrays.asList(new Integer[] {1,2,3})