On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 10:38:15 AM UTC-4, Jeff Bezanson wrote:
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> There is no need to write the type over and over again. You can say
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> const D = Dict{Symbol, Any}
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> D(:a => "", :b => 0, ...)
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There is also often no need to write the type at all:
julia> Dict(:a => "", :b => 0)
Dict{Symbol,Any} with 2 entries:
:a => ""
:b => 0
The Dict constructor automatically computes the common parent of the key
and value types.
