Doto

I've always had an issue with code like this: (event though I do it all the time)

Nothing wrong with it, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to chain those calls and avoid declaring that local variable?

I am currently reading "The Joy of Clojure" and came across the doto macro in clojure, which enables you to do the above like so: 

   (doto (new java.util.HashMap) ; or just (java.util.HashMap.)  
         (.put 1 "One")  
         (.put 2 "Two"))  

Nice!  But alas, I am forced to use Java by day so I tried to figure out the best approach to do this.  The first one comes to mind is this:

 new HashMap<Integer, String>(){{  
     put(1, "one");  
     put(2, "Two");  
   }};  

Which works perfectly except that it assumes you are the one constructing the object.  So I tried a more functional approach:

I believe I've gone and made it worse :(

I also tried a js implementation, which is pretty redundant for maps/objects as object literals are built in:

I would love to see some alternate solutions/improvements or maybe event implementations in other languages!