[julia-users] Function Syntax

[Pat Maneely]

I'm reviewing some code and am VERY new to Julia.  

The following pseudo code was provided to me in Julia and it doesn't appear 
to follow the function syntax that I was expecting.  

function AddToDB{K<:Int,V}(a::Associative{K,V}, v::V)
   k = rand(1:typemax(K))
   while haskey(a, k)
      k = rand(1:typemax(K))
  end
  merge!(a,{k=>v})
end


Is this a typo?  If not can you please explain what is being done here.


Thanks in advance,

Pat