Why not just implement your own #asDictionary message on 
SequencableCollection, if it's that much of an issue?

asDictionary
	"Answer a Dictionary with receivers elements.
	Assumes all elements are associations"
	| dict |
	dict := Dictionary new.
	self do: [:each | dict add: each].
	^dict

That will do what you're asking.

John.

Jason Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:23 PM, David Mitchell
> <david.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Brace notation for dynamic arrays!
> 
> So instead of:
> 
> dictionary := { $a -> 1. $b -> 2. $c -> 3 } asDictionary.
> 
> I need to type:
> 
> dictionary := Dictionary new
>                        add: $a -> 1;
>                        add: $b -> 2;
>                        add: $c -> 3;
>                        yourself.
> 
> ?  In my opinion the other dialects should adopt this or propose
> another way of doing it.  No concise syntax for dynamically creating a
> collection seems a problem to me, and easy to remedy in a language
> where one has access to the reader/compiler.  So why would it be bad
> to do so?
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 

-- 
John Thornborrow
http://www.pinesoft.co.uk


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