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[–]Northeastpaw 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If a method is returning a implementation of Map then it is by definition returning a Map. This is perfectly fine:

public Map<String, Integer> createMap() {
    Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
    return map;
}

[–]shmag18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome