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We can throw away colons too. Dictionaries will be sequences of “key””value””key””value”

Just because we can throw away redundancy doesn’t mean we should

This is how Clojure does it.

And iOS programming makes you fill dictionaries with alternating k,v,k,v,nil

*The Swift language (not only iOS programming at all)

*it is one way of initializing a dictionary. Literal way has a closer to JSON form.

EDIT: Oh you seem to be talking about ObjC it seems! I did not see the nil. Literal way is still more akin to JSON though.