Hi,

OkOk!
I should not write such things based on fuzzy recollections...
It sure _was_ an annoynace in another time, dialect, life...
BTW are you sure the time of inclusion in the base image is the same as the
timeStamp? I really do hope i'm less then 5 years out of sync -- maybe it has
rested in some archive for some time?

Squeak on,
Torge

> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:40:14 +0200 (MEST) Torge Husfeldt
> <jean-jacques.gelee at gmx.de> wrote:
> >IIRC there is another annoyance loosely related in the collections
> >hierarchy:
> >Dictionary>>copy does not copy the associations.
> >Now that a dictionary consist of associations is a pure implementation
> >detail and no code should rely on this fact.
> 
> Umm... what version of Squeak are you using? This seems to me to do the
> right thing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> 'From Squeak3.3alpha of 28 January 2002 [latest update: #4817] on 9 April
> 2002 at 6:23:04 am'!
> 
> !Dictionary methodsFor: 'private' stamp: 'tk 8/21/97 16:12'!
> copy
> 	"Must copy the associations, or later store will effect both the
> original and the copy"
> 
> 	^ self shallowCopy withArray:
> 		(array collect: [:assoc |
> 			assoc ifNil: [nil]
> 				ifNotNil: [Association key: assoc key
> value: assoc value]])! !
>