Horrible grotty hack: returning an anonymous type instance

One of the reasons I don't view anonymous types as being too bad is that they're nicely confined to methods. You can't declare the type that you're returning from a method if it's anonymous (or if one of its type arguments is generic, e.g. a List<T> where T is an anonymous type and T isn't a type parameter to the method itself). However, you can get around this if you're sneaky.

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