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

According to this page, the CLR default-constructs the object first before processing the initializer list, and you are therefore assigning to bar twice (once on default construction, once when the initializer is processed).