Concisely creating an IDictionary<_,obj>

Question

Is there a shorter way of creating an IDictionary<_,obj>, possibly without boxing every value? This is what I have.

let values =
  [ \"a\"         


        

Answer 1

Here's another "solution" which is inspired from Brian's suggestion but it uses reflection so there is a time and safety cost.

let unboxPair (pair:obj) =
    let ty = pair.GetType()
    let x = ty.GetProperty("Item1").GetValue(pair,null) :?> string
    let y = ty.GetProperty("Item2").GetValue(pair,null)
    x,y

let unboxPairs (pairs:obj list) =
  pairs |> List.map unboxPair  

let values =
  unboxPairs
    ["a", 1
     "b", "foo"
     "c", true]
  |> dict