Why is the setter of a property not called on construction?

[Wasabi375]

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In cases where the former value is relevant, like in a validation where the new value must be greater than the existing value, it simply doesn’t work with a setter + init block.

In that case there are 2 options:

1. you don’t want the setter called in the constructor so you can start with any value => just use a normal property initialization setting the field directly
2. you want a “min value” so you set the field to that value.

But how is that setter supposed to work without an initial value?