Cannot assign LinkedList to list, why?

Question

I use Java in Eclipse on Mac OS X 10.5 (JDK 5.0 compliance level), and I am having very strange compilation problems that I didn’t get before (and I don’t think I updated my compiler or Eclipse, but maybe an update was installed that I did not know about). For example, if there is the following line in my code:

List foo = new LinkedList();

I get a warning saying:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: 
Type mismatch: cannot convert from LinkedList to List

Does anyone know what happened?

thanks

Answer 1

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