JuliaLang/julia — pull request #1450 by kmsquire (2012-10-26 07:05:02+00:00)
Title: RFC: Added vector constructor to Dict()/dict()

Currently, dicts can be constructed iteratively or via a pair of tuples. This small patch allows initialization via a pair of arrays.

There may be better ways to do this but this seemed the simplest. Not sure of the effect on performance.