Why can't I initialize readonly variables in a initializer?

Question

Why can\'t I initialize readonly variables in a initializer? The following doesn\'t work as it should:

class Foo
{
    public readonly int bar;
}

new Foo {          


        

Answer 1

What you're trying to do is this:

   class Foo
   {
        public readonly int bar;

        Foo(int b)
        {
             bar = b;  // readonly assignments only in constructor
        }
   }

   Foo x = new Foo(0);