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

A variation of Stephen's idea:

open System
open System.Collections.Generic

type Dictionary<'a,'b> with
  member this.Add([] args:obj[]) =
    match args.Length with
    | n when n % 2 = 0 ->
      for i in 1..2..(n-1) do
        this.Add(unbox args.[i-1], unbox args.[i])
    | _ -> invalidArg "args" "even number of elements required"

let d = Dictionary()
d.Add(
  "a", 1,
  "b", "foo",
  "c", true
)