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

private set is very handy for simple immutable value types.

struct Point
{
    public int X { get; private set; }
    public int Y { get; private set; }
    public Point(int x, int y)
    {
        this = default(Point);
        X = x;
        Y = y;
    }
}