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

If whay you say is correct then I would say so. But what you say or think may not what happen in reality. How can you say in code what you have said. How to enforce the constraint that List is never modified?