Private 'set' in C# - having trouble wrapping my brain around it

Question

I\'ve seen a lot of example code written using something like (please forgive how horribly canned this is):

public class Test
{
   public object Thingy { get; pr         


        

Answer 1

The private makes it into a readonly property. A common example is if you have multiple classes passing around a single object, you don't want another class to be able to modify the instance.