On 12.06.2008, at 23:21, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Just got bitten by the fact that Dictionary>>collect: returns an  
> OrderedCollection instead of a Dictionary. What I had expected was  
> e.g.,
>
>  dict := Dictionary newFromPairs:{
> 	#first.  1.
> 	#second. 2.
> 	#third.  3.
>  }.
>  dict collect:[:item| item asWords].
>
> =>  a Dictionary(#first->'one' #second->'two' #third->'three' )
>
> but instead the result is an OrderedCollection('one' 'two' 'three').  
> Does anyone besides me consider this a bug? What does ANSI say about  
> this issue?


Don't know about ANSI, but I'd have expected a Dictionary, too.

- Bert -