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		smcj on July 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java 7 is now available 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!?

lurker14 on July 31, 2011 [–]

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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