[FIX] Re: Dictionary initialization syntax

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Thu Dec 7 21:10:58 UTC 2000


"Andrew P. Black" <apb at cse.ogi.edu> wrote:
	Well, Dictionary Class >> newFrom: aDictOrArray contains a couple of 
	examples of ways to do, this, namely
	
		Dictionary newFrom: {1->#a. 2->#b. 3->#c}
		{1->#a. 2->#b. 3->#c} as: Dictionary
	
	But the comments and argument name in that method were such that you 
	were unlikely to find it.

I think that's a little unfair.
If you want to know how to make a Dictionary,
the obvious thing to do is to point the browser at that class,
and look at class methods for instance creation.

There is only one.

(Ok, there are also the inherited "new" and "new: size".)





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