JEP 186: Collection Literals

[Jochen Theodorou]

Am 31.01.2014 09:43, schrieb Remi Forax:
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> If one day the JDK has persistent collections (and I hope it will),
> there will be not interface to abstract them.
> (you can still ask all implementations in the javadoc of the interface
> to super swear that they are immutable but it's a weak contract).

But the same goes for an abstract base class. So those persistent 
collections would always have to have only the concrete class and most 
probably no super class besides Object.

Supporting different implementations then becomes difficult.

bye Jochen

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