>> Sending #asArray would introduce the unnecessary creation of an
>> interim collection for every single query, even while making the code
>> unnecessarily wordy and harder to read.
> 
> You assume that it would be a common case to join non-seq collections. I
> argue that this is not the case. In those situations where you do have a
> non-seq collection, it would help readability to make the order explicit.

+1

Stef