[Pharo-users] Creating a dictionary from a list of associations

Hi everyone, About twice a week I start looking for a straightforward way to turn a list of associations into a dictionary, spend a while searching, and give up, ending up with a messy explicit loop. Example: | words lengths | words := #('abc' 'defg'). lengths := Dictionary new. words do: [ :each | lengths at: each put: each size ]. lengths Is there really no way to this with less code? I'd expect the following to work: | words lengths | words := #('abc' 'defg'). lengths := Dictionary withAll: (words collect: [ :each | each -> each size ]). but it looks like Dictionary>>#withAll: was specifically designed to make this impossible (because with the default implementation in Collection it would work). Konrad.