GetHashCode
is used to file an object in a Dictionary
or Hashtable
. If GetHashCode
uses
non-readonly
fields and those fields change after the object is stored, the object immediately becomes mis-filed in the
Hashtable
. Any subsequent test to see if the object is in the Hashtable
will return a false negative.
Exceptions
This rule does not raise if the type implementing GetHashCode
is a value type, for example a struct
or a record
struct
, since when a value type is stored in a Dictionary
or Hashtable
, a copy of the value is stored, not a
reference to the value.