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by smcj 5433 days ago
Oh god. Please no, collection literals are the worst idea ever. Making up special rules for some special classes in a language? What the fuck!?
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You must be terrified at the presence of numerals and quotation marks in programming languages.

Here's the doc on Collection Literals, BTW.

https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv8ts74_4cbnn5mhj

Collection Literals are actually better than string literals, because they only enforce an interface, not an implemenation.