JEP 186: Collection Literals

[Millies, Sebastian]

I would certainly expect it to be an immutable list, and I believe the proposal of having collection literals makes most sense in the context of persistent collections. This would be in keeping with evolving Java towards a more functional and parallel-friendly programming style, which entails embracing immutability. In contrast, what's to be gained from a shorter version of Arrays.asList() ?  -- Sebastian

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From: lambda-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:lambda-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Moshe Sayag
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:52 PM
To: lambda-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: JEP 186: Collection Literals

1. What is the exact meaning of:

List<Integer> list = #[ 1, 2, 3 ];

Will 'list' be an ArrayList, a LinkedList or an immutable list?

2. Java already has the curly brackets {...} to construct an array.

int[] array = { 1, 2, 3 };

How will the new literal go with it?
Will we have:

int[] array = #[ 1, 2, 3 ];

What about

List<Integer> list = { 1, 2, 3 };


Moshe


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:17 AM, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/186
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> - Mark
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