Really nooB question - @property
Eric via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 20 11:14:28 PDT 2014
> Use @property when you want a pseudo-variable or something that
> might be conceptually considered a "property" of the object,
> i.e. to do this:
>
> auto blah = thing.someProperty;
> thing.someProperty = blahblah;
>
This is basically what I suspected. But why
write:
@property int getValue() { return(value); }
When you could just have a public field:
int value;
That lets you set and get the value without the parens anyways?
thanks,
Eric
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