Exposing Aliasing In Collections With Immutable Solutions
Use immutable collections to prevent unintended side effects, debugging challenges & data corruption. Immutable collections can't be changed after creation, helping you avoid aliasing issues.
Exposing your collections couples your solution TL;DR: Use immutable collections to prevent unintended side effects. Problems Unpredictable behavior Debugging challenges Data corruption Violation of the Principle of Least Astonishment Premature optimization Unexpected Mutations Concurrency problems Compromised thread safety Increased coupling Solutions Use immutable collections Create immutable classes Copy the collection before modification Avoid collection getters Avoid automatic properties Favor information hiding and encapsulation Context Aliasing happens wh...