please review draft JEP: Convenience Factory Methods for Collections

Michael Kay mike at saxonica.com
Fri Jul 18 08:11:17 UTC 2014


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> Well, Remi had proposed raising the limit. Suppose we offered 7 key-value pairs instead of 5. Would you then complain about having to rewrite your code if you had to add an 8th entry to the map? 

Yes, I would. In fact, the higher you make the limit, the bigger the surprise when I find I cannot extend my code in the natural way by adding one more entry.

Michael Kay
Saxonica


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