JuliaLang/julia — pull request #8521 by JeffBezanson (2014-09-29 20:11:11+00:00)
Title: RFC: regularize Dict syntax

This provides `Dict(a=>b, c=>d, ...)` and `Dict{K,V}(a=>b, c=>d, ...)` syntax. Plan is to deprecate other dict syntax.

Fixes #6739.

I think the main controversy is what exactly `=>` should be. Right now it is special syntax for a call to `Base.Pair`. It could be a function, or the name of the pair type (`immutable =>{A,B}`).