import java.util.*
class Erase {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
	List names = new ArrayList()
	names.add("Ted")
	names.add("Fred")
	names.add("Jed")
	names.add("Ned")
	System.out.println(names)
	Erase e = new Erase()
	List short_names = e.filterLongerThan(names, 3)
	System.out.println (short_names.size())
	for (s in short_names) {
	    System.out.println(s)
	}
    }
    public List filterLongerThan (List strings, int length) {
	List result = new ArrayList()
	for (s in strings) {
	    if (s.length() < length+1) {
		result.add(s)
	    }
	}
	return result
    }
}

• Perhaps we don’t need all those type annotations …