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Is it true that the only equivalent to the Java statement
```new Object[][] = {{ "foo", "bar" }, { 1, 2 }}```
in Kotlin is
```arrayOf(arrayOf( "foo", "bar" ), arrayOf( 1, 2 ))```
with the obvious implications for N-dimensional arrays?

Yes, this is the issue to vote and watch: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43871/Collection-literals>

Except when you are configuring annotation property values, there a literal exists already.

<https://kotlinlang.org/docs/annotations.html#arrays-as-annotation-parameters>

as a temporary measure until then, you could
```import kotlin.arrayOf as a
a(a("foo", "bar"), a(1, 2))```