<Why calling a private constructor in Kotlin resul...

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Why calling a private constructor in Kotlin results in error as "Cannot access &lt;init&gt;"? What is &lt;init&gt;?
If you use factory method in Kotlin to create an object, like:
class Person private constructor(val firstName:String , val lastName: String) {
companion object {
fun createPerson(firstName: String, lastName: String): Person {
return Person(firstName, lastName)
}
}
}

Calling factory method works:
val person1 = Person.createPerson("Niels", "Abel")

And also, of course, you can't call the constructor directly:
val person2 = Person("Évariste", "Galois")

The...