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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tl;dr: don't use @property during design, it's almost certainly the wrong pattern. But use it to retrofit a method to a value.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yup. I pretty much only use it if I need to ensure new values are valid or provide a default value.

I do the same in other languages, like C# and JavaScript. Properties are cool, but should be quite rare.