The need is identified for programmatically ascertaining the immutability of certain objects used in situations where they are expected to be immutable. The technicalities of immutability assessment are discussed. A mechanism is described for achieving it.
Type names as reported by the dotnet runtime are in a cryptic, non-human-readable format. Attempts by many to solve this problem have generally been naive, incomplete, and clunky. A library that gets the job done right is presented.
PEARL: In dotnet, the `System.Type.Name` and `System.Type.FullName` properties return type names in a cryptic format which is not human-readable and bears very little resemblance to the names of the same types as they appear in C# source code.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
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