How do you emulate a dictionary / hashtable in boo?

Question

If you want to make a boo class that behaves like a dictionary or hashtable, what is the correct syntax? In Python you'd override __getitem__ and __setitem__, but I've been unable to find the equivalent magic methods in Boo and I don't think I can inherit from Dictionary in this case.

Answer 1

If you want to adapt an existing class to act like a dictionary/hash, (or to access an internal field of one of these classes,) the equivalent to overriding __setitem__ and __getitem__ is defining a default array property on the class, like so:

public self[key as TKey] as TValue:
    get:
        return LookupValue(key)
    set:
        SetValue(key, value)

(You'll have to fill in the types and actual accessors yourself.)