Harsh Gupta created GROOVY-8285:
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Summary: Static compilation does not accept subclasses for generic
arguments
Key: GROOVY-8285
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8285
Project: Groovy
Issue Type: Bug
Environment: Groovy Version: 2.4.12 JVM: 1.8.0_121 Vendor: Oracle
Corporation OS: Mac OS X
Reporter: Harsh Gupta
This snippet does not compile.
```import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
@CompileStatic
class Scratch
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<bar> listA
List<foo> listB = new ArrayList<>()
listB.add(new foo())
listA = listB
}
}
class bar{
public int blah(){return 12;}
}
class foo extends bar{
public int boo() {return 42;}
}
```
Compilation errors:
```repro.groovy: 10: [Static type checking] - Incompatible generic argument
types. Cannot assign java.util.ArrayList <foo> to: java.util.List <bar>
@ line 10, column 21.
listA = listB
^
````
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