I’ve found the process slow, and the learning curve painfully steep, but completely fascinating, and rewarding. There’s a dearth of good books, but if you have a solid grasp of the basics “F# for Scientists” is pretty good.

A dictionary enumerates as a sequence of KeyValuePairs, so if d is the same Dictionary as above

d |> Seq.fold_left (fun acc kvp -> acc.add kvp.Key kvp.Value) Map.empty

is all you need.

I’m translating “Programming Collective Intelligence”, a pretty damn interesting book on data analysis - something I’m sure you MMO guys are all over - into F# over at http://code.google.com/p/dataviz

I don’t have much to show for it yet, but it’s powerful stuff. Take a look if your interested.

http://cs.hubfs.net/ is also worth looking at if you haven’t already.

#light

open System.Collections.Generic
let d = new Dictionary<string,int>()
d.["one"] <- 1
d.["two"] <- 2
d.["three"] <- 3
let keyValuePairs = (d :> seq<_>)
let m = keyValuePairs |> Seq.map (fun kvp -> (kvp.Key, kvp.Value)) |> Map.of_seq
for kvp in m do
printfn “%s -> %d” kvp.Key kvp.Value

#light

open System.Collections.Generic
let d = new Dictionary<string,int>()
d.["one"] <- 1
d.["two"] seq<_>)
let m = keyValuePairs |> Seq.map (fun kvp -> (kvp.Key, kvp.Value)) |> Map.of_seq
for kvp in m do
printfn “%s -> %d” kvp.Key kvp.Value

#light

open System.Collections.Generic
let d = new Dictionary()
d.["one"] <- 1
d.["two"] <- 2
d.["three"] seq)
let m = keyValuePairs |> Seq.map (fun kvp -> (kvp.Key, kvp.Value)) |> Map.of_seq
for kvp in m do
printfn “%s -> %d” kvp.Key kvp.Value