R. David Murray added the comment:

You are conceptualizing this very differently.  In our view, this data 
structure is for cases where the original key is the most important piece of 
information (about the keys).  The transformation in the lookup process is 
entirely in the service of looking up the value paired with that original key 
when there is more than one possible representation of that key.  It is the 
original key that is critical when re-serializing the data or otherwise making 
use of the keys for anything other than lookup.  So this is about making the 
data structure succinctly model the problem domain, which is what OO is 
supposed to be good at :)

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