I'm was attempting to make a class that had an private implicit primary constructor, but was accessible outside of the assembly. The user would get this class from a static factory method that also required static let binding. I realized though that if I declared the primary constructor private, the type would also be private, and not accessible outside of my library. An example of the class I'm trying to model in C# looks like:

public class myclass

{

private myclass() {}

static private const int a = 1;

static public myclass factory() { return new myclass(); }

}

If i try to write the class with an explicit constructor, then I lose the static let bindings, but figure I could just use static val fields instead, but I don't know how to initialize a static val outside of a constructor. So, two questions:

Is there a way to set the access modifiers for the class and the primary constructor separately?

How do you initialize a static val outside of a constructor (if possible... which i figure it would as it isn't always necessary to initialize a static val with each new instance)?