list literal gotcha and suggestion

[Neal Gafter]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reinier at zwitserloot.com
> wrote:

> On 2009/06/10, at 21:32, Neal Gafter wrote:
>
>> Not at all.  I believe that the cast would be unnecessary in virtually all
>> use contexts, just as the cast from "3" to "byte" is unnnecessary in
>> virtually all use contexts.
>>
>
> Doesn't coin include byte literals?
>

Yes.  That has nothing to do with the part of the existing language
specification that allows "3" to be assigned to a "byte".

 I think you overstate. "Virtually all use contexts"? I'd say that methods
> taking in a java.util.Collection is a pretty big use context.
>

Agreed, those contexts are included.

-Neal