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Oh sweet jesus finally collection literals. Why did it take more than 10 years to decide to bring in something so convenient? One reason I sometimes find Java repulsive is the fact that it takes so much redundant code to do something so simple. Why do they hold back on such syntactic sugar?


Oh god. Please no, collection literals are the worst idea ever. Making up special rules for some special classes in a language? What the fuck!?


You must be terrified at the presence of numerals and quotation marks in programming languages.

Here's the doc on Collection Literals, BTW.

https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv8ts74_4cbnn5mhj

Collection Literals are actually better than string literals, because they only enforce an interface, not an implemenation.




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