declaring a const object in C#

[kender_a]

Folks,

I used to be an enthusiastic C++ writer. Currently, I’m going up the learning curve of .NET and C#.

From what I’m reading on the web, only the C# built-in types may be declared as const. Is there a workaround that would allow to declare a constant local object variable, an instance of a framework class?

private void foo()
{
    const Size sz = new Size(19, 16);    // this doesn’t work in C#
    // ...
}

Any suggestion, insight or reference is really appreciated!

- Nick

P.S. It would be lamentable, if designers of C# just decided not to implement the const facilities of C++ (which were well thought through, IMHO).