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is there some neat way to publicly expose a read-only view on a private, mutable collection?
i always end up with something like
```private val mutable = mutableListOf&lt;Something&gt;()
val readonly: List&lt;Something&gt; = mutable```
which is kinda ugly

Here's a ticket to vote for: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-14663>

In your example one could still cast it to `MutableList` and modify it from the outside. To avoid this you should use:
```mutable.toList()```

<@URJ0QJJRM> i'm aware of that and its ok in my case :slightly_smiling_face:

I just checked a <https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/explicit-backing-fields-re/proposals/explicit-backing-fields.md|KEEP proposal> and it states that prototype of this feature <https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/explicit-backing-fields-re/proposals/explicit-backing-fields.md#prototype-in-k2-preview-with-kotlin-170|has been added to Kotlin 1.7.0>. Interesting, because I didn’t notice it in changelog