Basically to make it look like a scalar when it comes to broadcasting because pairs (perhaps dubiously) have shape:
julia> (1 => 2) .+ [3, 4]
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
4
6
Basically to make it look like a scalar when it comes to broadcasting because pairs (perhaps dubiously) have shape:
julia> (1 => 2) .+ [3, 4]
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
4
6