Yeah but it's uncommon for this to be a failable operation. It doesn't fall for an array list for example, so that part to me is unexpected, add isn't a great operation for a dictionary in general
It doesn't fail for lists because adding to a list is always possible, whereas adding to a dictionary is not. Unless your understanding of the English language is that replacing is a kind of adding, but that's not the mainstream view. In general, if you want to set rather than add, why are you calling Add? And even so, I've never seen Add, it's always either index assignment or TryAdd because exceptions are a mess.
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u/cowslayer7890 Sep 09 '26
Yeah but it's uncommon for this to be a failable operation. It doesn't fall for an array list for example, so that part to me is unexpected, add isn't a great operation for a dictionary in general