Stephen Compall wrote:
>> I think the "this message expects a literal" thing is pretty weird.
>
> The idea is to get the user thinking in terms of what good brace-syntax
> for instances would be.
I understand that, and actually having thought about it, it seems that I
was just confused by the documentation. I would suggest:
"Answer a new instance of Dictionary initialized from the keys and
values of Associations in anArray. This method is for convenience
only; it allows its argument to be conveniently specified as a
braced Array literal that is structured accordingly: {'key' ->
'value'. 'another key' -> 'another value'}."
And maybe suggest that any other usage is considered "misuse" and is
"strongly discouraged or bad things will happen"... :) Basically I
think it should make it very clear that it's there for convenience.
That would also explain why Array>>#from: answers its argument instead
of a new instance, which seems inconsistent with Collection and Dictionary.
Jānis
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