You can do that the way you'd expect:

    var strings = new ArrayList<String>() { "red", "green", "blue" }

Thanks. That's interesting. Is there a global setting to always use ArrayList instead of List? Actually maybe global is too much... per file setting.

So by default the type inferred is ArrayList, if you want a different type you just specify it.

ex. var strings = { "red", "green", "blue" } //ArrayList

var strings2 : LinkedList<String> = { "red", "green", "blue" }

thanks