For further consideration, round 2

[Neal Gafter]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Greg Brown <gkbrown at mac.com> wrote:

> But again, is there really a strong enough use case for collection
> literals in Java to justify any kind of language change? If you are
> finding that you truly need collection literals, is it possible that
> Java just isn't the right language for the problem you are trying to
> solve?


I won't attempt to defend the collection literal proposal in particular, but
I will point out that different parts of a program can stress different
parts of your programming language.  It just isn't reasonable to switch
among languages for different parts of a project.

Cheers,
Neal