The dictionary, called Dict, is one of Julia's most powerful and versatile data structures. It's an associative collection—it associates keys with values. You can think of a Dict as a look-up table implementation—given a single piece of information, the key, it will return the corresponding value.
Dictionaries
Constructing dictionaries
Creating an empty instance of a Dict is as simple as the following:
julia> d = Dict()
Dict{Any,Any} with 0 entries
The information between the curly brackets, {Any,Any}, represents the types of keys and values of the Dict. Thus, the concrete type of a Dict itself is defined by the type of its keys and values. The compiler will do its best to infer the type of...
