Properties
Gentee provides you with the property in order to get or set values of the fields of the structured types. Using the properties you can hide a direct access to the fields and perform additional calculations in order to get a field value or set a field value with the help of the assignment operator. A property name must differ from a field name, because a direct access to a field has a higher priority; otherwise, a field value will be got or set.
The get property, that returns a value, must contain no arguments.
type mytype
{
str val
}
property str mytype.value
{
return this.val
}The set property, that defines a value, must contain one argument. Also, the set property can return a value.
property str mytype.value( str newval )
{
if *newval : this.val = newval
else : this.val = "empty"
return this.val
}A property name is specified in the same way as a field in order to call a property. The set property is called if it is specified on the left side of the assignment operator; otherwise, the get property is called.
func myfunc
{
mytype myt
myt.value = "New value" // set
print( myt.value ) // get
}