Readonly field that could be assigned a value outside constructor

Question

Is there a way to have a private readonly field in a class that could be assigned a value anywhere in the class, but only once??

That is, I am looking for a private read

Answer 1

There's no language support for that, but you could make a setter, which implemented the desired behavior. Obviously that would not give you compile time errors, but without the language support that is probably the best you can do.