Set.of() and List.of() look very attractive; Map.of() looks very ugly. I would much prefer to write something like
Map.of( Map.pair(key, value), Map.pair(key, value), Map.pair(key, value) ); and have no limit on the number of pairs. (Don't care how it works internally...) The last thing I want is to have to rewrite all my code when someone asks me to add a sixth entry to the map initialization! Michael Kay Saxonica m...@saxonica.com +44 (0118) 946 5893 On 17 Jul 2014, at 01:46, Stuart Marks <stuart.ma...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please review this draft JEP for Convenience Factory Methods for Collections: > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8048330 > > Brief background: several times over the years there have been proposals to > add "collection literals" to the language. The most recent round of this was > in regard to JEP 186, a research JEP to explore this topic. That effort was > concluded by Brian Goetz, as summarized in this email: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2014-March/011938.html > > Essentially, the idea of adding collection literals to the language was set > aside in favor of adding some library APIs, not entirely unlike collection > literals, that make it more convenient to create collections. That's what > this proposal is. > > Share and enjoy, > > s'marks >
