list literal gotcha and suggestion

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <
reinier at zwitserloot.com> wrote:

> I've only seen serious opposition to dumping set literals from one or
> two voices. As far as I can remember, we were pretty solidly
> converging on the idea of having just map and list literals, with a
> toSet() method to address places where you'd rather have a set, and
> adding in static factory methods to HashSet and ArrayList, which would
> create mutables (the literals create immutables).
>

Reinier: if you're running this JSR, it would be instructive to see your
summary of the expert group's vote count on both sides of the issue, and
your proposed draft spec.