Bug 356384

Description Matt Heitz 2011-08-31 14:36:32 EDT

Dictionary needs a constructor so you can pass in the caseSensitive and ordering values.  Presently they're annotations you can put on a field, like this:

dx dictionary{ caseSensitive = false, ordering = OrderingKind.byKey };

But if there's no field (you create the dictionary on the fly) there's no way to set caseSensitive and ordering:

processDictionary(
  // Invalid!
  new dictionary{ 
    caseSensitive = false, 
    ordering = OrderingKind.byKey, 
    key1 = value1 } );

We should have a constructor for dictionaries, as shown in this example:

processDictionary(
  new dictionary( false, OrderingKind.byKey ) { key1 = value1 } );