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Re:Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages... by jayd16 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:47AM (#25764551)
You could use an explicit private readonly field and a property getter, or even just a public readonly field. I would argue its only sugar.
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Re:Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages... by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:12PM (#25768029)
Are you referring to the init only setters?

If so, it isn’t just sugar, they added a new hook for it in the internals, rather than just relabelling a technique to accomplish a similar (but not equal) end.

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Re:Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages... by ygra on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:45PM (#25767730)
It doesn't scale that well, as you need ctor parameters for every property, so API additions may also be breaking changes.
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Re:Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages... by merb on Saturday January 16, 2021 @04:04PM (#25805491)
well that would be different to instantiate tough. it would be Class(1, 2, 3) instead of Class { Value1=1, Value2=2, Value3=3, }

actually record types are more syntactic sugar around what you said than initonly, which opens up a new way of writing code

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