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Hamza

11/01/2018, 12:42 AM

Will Kotlin get syntax for list, set and map creation

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Shawn

11/01/2018, 12:46 AM

I mean, maybe? https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/kotlin-language-feature-requests/1001/5

but of all things to focus on, this really isn’t all that important

https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/plans-for-collection-literals/2049/2

karelpeeters

11/01/2018, 12:47 AM

https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/pull/112

Shawn

11/01/2018, 12:47 AM

@karelpeeters damm, karel

it was sitting in my clipboard, ready to go

karelpeeters

11/01/2018, 12:48 AM

There's a well discussed proposal here

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And I'm on mobile too!

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Back on topic, is this really such a big deal? Is

listOf

really that bad? It's elegant from a language-design point of view. I'll admit I was reluctant the first week or so too.

Shawn

11/01/2018, 12:50 AM

having written quite a bit of python before learning Kotlin I’ll admit I kinda miss it

but it really isn’t a hill worth dying on

Mike

11/01/2018, 12:58 AM

I really like it in annotations but am hesitant about having it main code. Listof is clear even to someone not familiar with language.

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