What is the practical value of creating a dictionary from non-association objects? That seems to me like the programmer made a mistake and forgot something. But maybe you do it regularly, I can only speak for myself.

However consider also this:

��#(a b c) collect: [ :each | each -> each first asciiValue ] ��as: Dictionary.��"a Dictionary(1->#a->97 2->#b->98 3->#c->99 )"

(#(a b c) collect: [ :each | each -> each first asciiValue ]) as: Dictionary. "a Dictionary(#a->97 #b->98 #c->99 )"

Peter

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@gmail.com> wrote:

2015-10-23 8:33 GMT+02:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>:

> On 23 Oct 2015, at 07:12, Peter Uhn��k <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is this intentional behavior?
>
> #(a b c) collect: [ :each | each -> each first asciiValue ] as: Dictionary.
> "a Dictionary(1->#a->97 2->#b->98 3->#c->99 )"
>
> (#(a b c) collect: [ :each | each -> each first asciiValue ]) asDictionary.
> "a Dictionary(#a->97 #b->98 #c->99 )"
>
> I would expect that collect:as: for Dictionaries would act in the same way as #asDictionary.
>
Yes, I would expect the same�� asDictionary is fairly recent, though. Before that, any kind
of conversion would have been fine.

�� Marcus

I would not change this.
The first just collects each entry and builds an association with the index,
and the second expects a list of assocations.
They have different behaviors if the list does not contains (or does not only contains) associations:

{�� $a -> 1 . $b -> 2. 'not_an_association' } collect:#yourself as:Dictionary. "works - I would not expect an error"
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{�� $a -> 1 . $b -> 2. 'not_an_association' } asDictionary "throws an error - as I would expect it "
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