Re: List<> of struct with property. Cannot change value of property. why?

Zytan <zytanlithium@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess this could be shortened to:

list[index].MethodThatChangesStructsFields();

Confirmed. This operates on the COPY, and any changes are lost, and
the compiler does NOT warn about this.

No, and there's no way it could. There's nothing available to the
compiler to let it know that the method changes the contents of the
struct.

(Remember when we warned you about making mutable structs, back in
March? This is just one of the problems. Just say no to mutable
structs, basically :)

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