Really nooB question - @property

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 7/21/2014 3:14 AM, Eric wrote:
>
>> 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

In addition to what others have pointed out, it's useful for read-only 
values. You don't always want to allow clients to be able to set an 
objects members.

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