I believe ANSI says it should be a dictionary. VW has just changed their
implementation in version 7.6 to return a Dictionary. 

-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
Andreas Raab
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:22 PM
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Subject: [squeak-dev] Dictionary>>collect: returning OrderedCollection?

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?

Cheers,
   - Andreas