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ReadOnlyDictionary has been around for 5 years, and even before that you could implement this with generics in a way that is re-usable everywhere rather than ha

• alkonaut 9y ago
  Yeah lack of generics with the argument of "simplicity" is a special kind of crazy. I was thinking of the ImmutableDictionary that's more recent. Normally in C#/Java you should rarely expose collection types directly so you almost always encapsulate the list/dictionary and provide e.g GetReservation(string id) to the outside, which makes it less common to even need the readonly types at all. Immutable ones are a whole different thing since they enable proper sharing of whole collections.