[erlang-questions] Return [Value] of erlang dict:find fetch

[王靖易]

Hi,
I'm a beginner of erlang and have found some problems in my project. After
doing some google I found here and wish someone could help me.
  I'm using the erlang structure 'dict' for a key-value table in my
program, but I found that the return value of dict:fetch and dict:find is
actually [Value] or {ok, [Value]} (means I get a list containing the value
instead of the original one). However, this is not the problem, the real
problem is, this happens only in some situations which I can't find what it
is.
An example:
Eshell V5.8.5  (abort with ^G)
1> A = dict:new().
{dict,0,16,16,8,80,48,
      {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]},
      {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]}}}
2> A2 = dict:append(key, value, A).
{dict,1,16,16,8,80,48,
      {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]},
      {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],
        [[key,value]],
        [],[],[],[],[],[]}}}
3> dict:find(key, A2).
{ok,[value]}

  My erlang environment is R14B04 on  ubuntu 12.04. Could any one tell me
why the return value of dict:find is not the same as the doc?

Best regards,
Jingyi Wang
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