Why is an Add method required for { } initialization?

Question

To use initialization syntax like this:

var contacts = new ContactList
{
    { \"Dan\", \"dan.tao@email.com\" },
    { \"Eric\", \"ceo@google.com\" }
};
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Answer 1

I'd love to have the initializer syntax for immutable types(both collections and normal types). I think this could be implemented with a special constructor overload using a syntax similar to params.

For example something like this:

MyClass(initializer KeyValuePair[] initialValues)

But unfortunately the C# team didn't implement such a thing yet :(

So we need to use a workaround like

MyClass(new KeyValuePair[]{...})

for now