Hi, Dictionary class>>#newFrom: right now raises an error if it sees duplicated keys. newFrom: aDictionaryOrCollectionOfAssociations "Answer an instance of me containing the same associations as the argument. Error if any key appears twice." | newDictionary | newDictionary := self new: aDictionaryOrCollectionOfAssociations size. aDictionaryOrCollectionOfAssociations associationsDo: [:x | (newDictionary includesKey: x key) ifTrue: [self error: 'Duplicate key: ', x key printString] ifFalse: [newDictionary add: x]]. ^ newDictionary this leads to an error for: {#a->1. #a->2} asDictionary While just creating it with new and putting the data of course has no problem with duplicated keys: Dictionary new at: #a put: 1; at: #a put: 2; yourself We have a suggestion to remove the error. PR is here: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11176 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11176> (as a side-effect, this speed up asDictionary a little, too) Marcus