[Proposal]: Collection Expression Arguments (VS 18.8, .NET 11)
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# Collection Expression Arguments
* Specification: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/csharp-15.0/collection-expression-arguments.md
* Discussion: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/8886
## Summary
[summary]: #summary
Introduce a way for users to create collection expressions (e.g. `[a, b, c]`) while also passing along arguments to the respective creation construction for that collection.
An example strawman syntax for this would be:
```c#
List values = [args(capacity: 32); a, b, c];
```
## Design meetings
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2024/LDM-2024-12-09.md#collection-expression-arguments
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-01-22.md#collection-expression-arguments
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-03-12.md#collection-builder-method-parameter-order
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-03-17.md#collection-expression-arguments
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-04-09.md#dictionary-expressions
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-04-09.md#collection-expression-arguments
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-04-14.md
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-05-07.md#collection-expression-arguments
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-05-12.md#collection-expression-arguments
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-12-10.md#collection-expression-arguments
* https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-12-17.md#collection-expression-arguments-parsing-question
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