Is List thread-safe for reading?

Question

Is the following pseudocode thread-safe ?

IList dataList = SomeNhibernateRepository.GetData();

Parallel.For(..i..)
{
    foreach(var item in dataLi         


        

Answer 1

to make sure no one is gonna change yuor list you could access it through an IEnumerable

IEnumerable dataList = SomeNhibernateRepository.GetData();

Parallel.For(..i..)
{
    foreach(var item in dataList)
    {
       DoSomething(item);
    }
}