Boo: Explicitly specifying the type of a hash

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I am new to Boo, and trying to figure out how to declare the type of a hash. When I do:

   myHash = {}
   myHash[key] = value
   (later)
   myHash[key].method()

the compiler complains that "method is not a member of object". I gather that it doesn't know what type the value in the hash is.

Is there any way I can declare to the compiler what type the keys and values of the hash are so that it won't complain?

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