How to pass a dictionary by reference?

Question

I would like to implement an application that uses a collection - specifically - a dictionary .

I want to instantiate the dictionary with block level scope and have all methods have access to the items in the dictionary.

I am running into some tricky syntax issues - and i was hoping that the combined collective genius of all the programmers here could make really quick work of this problem for me .

 

passing a dictionary by reference is turning out to be cool .