I agree, and I think it's troublesome that dict now means something more specialized than it did before and the language doesn't communicate this. The dict is d

I agree, and I think it's troublesome that dict now means something more specialized than it did before and the language doesn't communicate this. The dict is dead, long live the dict. I suspect it's the result of my Java goggles, because the distaste comes from a sense that this is analagous to if the Map interface suddenly always meant LinkedHashMap.