16 Properties
Chapter 15 introduced properties in a limited way. Its focus was on structures and classes, but you also gave your types some basic stored properties so that they had data to represent. This chapter discusses properties in detail and will deepen your understanding of how to use them with your custom types.
Properties model the characteristics of the entity that a type represents. They do this by associating values with the type. The values properties can take may be constant or variable values. Classes, structures, and enumerations can all have properties.
Properties can be of two varieties: stored and computed. Stored properties can be given default values, and computed properties can return the result of some ...
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