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On TSS there is a quite interessting article about syntactic sugar for Lists and Maps. But its only interessting in terms of "how ridicolus the proposal is". Its about implementing a shortcut for initializing lists with objects in java without going the normal "call constructor, call methods for each object addition" way.

First of all, i dont like the VM chosing "sensible default" List implementations for me. The other point is, how often do you manually fill lists with pre-defined objects? I rarely do. In fact 95% of my lists are populated by XML binding frameworks, spring contexts, persistence engines, you name it.