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From time to time, I find someone using the double curly braces anti pattern (also called double brace initialisation) in the wild. This time on Stack Overflow:                 Map source = new HashMap(){{ put(“firstName”, “John”); put(“lastName”, “Smith”); put(“organizations”, new HashMap(){{ put(“0″, new HashMap(){{ put(“id”, “1234”); }}); put(“abc”, new […]