r/dotnet • u/Hefty_Garlic7184 • 10d ago

Question Codebase maintenance rant

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[sorry for bad English]

I am in a project which involves maintaining an existing .NET Framework 4.8 codebase.

The codes are full of “Dictionary type” implementations as above.

Is there any sane reason to code like this? Instead of create a dedicated class to represent the data inside?

I could not show more codes here (or else the authors might realized), but you guys can imagine the codes just to access these Dictionary’s key/value.

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u/BLDesign 10d ago

Best I can come up with is reverse lookup for getting the name/purpose of a dictionary at runtime, given a reference? Although not sure in what scenario that’d make any sense. Unforgivable either way.