Forum conversation can be found here: http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=264728&tstart=0 In this example, the first line is highlighted, but the second is not: List<Integer> ints1 = asList2(new Integer[] {1, 2, 3}); List<Integer> ints2 = Arrays.asList(new Integer[] {1, 2, 3});