I'm trying to reduce boilerplate when creating an ...

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[Rob Elliot]

I'm trying to reduce boilerplate when creating an object as a subtype of an abstract class, with arbitrary fields, and can't work it out 🧵

[Rob Elliot]

My current code looks like this:

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[Rob Elliot]

I feel I should be able to reduce it to something like this, using extension methods and a `PropertyDelegateProvider`:

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[Rob Elliot]

But I'm not sure it's possible to declare the fields of the subclass like this!

[Rob Elliot]

Using the code here I can do this, which is quite close to what I want.

I'm pleasantly surprised that flat_subjects.subject_id compiles! I expected it would have lost the anonymous inner object's fields by returning it from a function.

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