'Static readonly' vs. 'const'

Question

I\'ve read around about const and static readonly fields. We have some classes which contain only constant values. They are used for various things

Answer 1

Constants are like the name implies, fields which don't change and are usually defined statically at compile time in the code.

Read-only variables are fields that can change under specific conditions.

They can be either initialized when you first declare them like a constant, but usually they are initialized during object construction inside the constructor.

They cannot be changed after the initialization takes place, in the conditions mentioned above.

Static read-only sounds like a poor choice to me since, if it's static and it never changes, so just use it public const. If it can change then it's not a constant and then, depending on your needs, you can either use read-only or just a regular variable.

Also, another important distinction is that a constant belongs to the class, while the read-only variable belongs to the instance!