list literal gotcha and suggestion

[Paul Benedict]

Stephen,

My apologies for not seeing that you already responded with a similar
suggestion. I am glad to know that you and others are not alone in
wanting static methods.

PS: To those managing the Java language, please let's try to avoid
having two ways of doing the same thing. If this proposal can be done
with static methods and varargs, I find the utility of literal
collections to be sorely diminished.

Paul