Question about select list functions

[Lucas]

Quote from the file `class.module.inc.php` regarding the functions CreateInputDropdown and CreateInputSelectList:

"An array of items to put into the dropdown list... they should be $key=>$value pairs"

However, when I look at the code in `modform.inc.php`:

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		$text .= '<option value="'.$value.'"';
			if ($selectedindex == $count || $selectedvalue == $value)
			{
				$text .= ' ' . 'selected="selected"';
			}
			$text .= '>';
			$text .= $key;
			$text .= '</option>';

I know the index of a select item is called a 'value' by HTML-standard, but this doesn't make sense to me... Now I have to feed this function an array like this:

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$list = array('Some text' => '1');

Looks very nasty to me, why is it done this way?