How to make inline array initialization work like e.g. Dictionary initialization?

Question

Why is it possible to initialize a Dictionary like this:

var dict = new Dictionary() { 
    { \"key1\", 1 },
    { \"         


        

Answer 1

You might not see it but it is the same syntax. The only difference is that an array takes elements as an input where a dictionary takes a 2 dimensional array.

int[] a = new int[]{5,6};
int[,] a = new int[]{{5,6},{3,6}};
Dictionary a = new Dictionary{{5,6},{3,6}};