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property
A property is a symbol associated with an object than can be either read or written.

Each property has a datatype.

Some object properties are read-only.

A property whose name begins with an underscore is automatically hidden by the IDE.

A property is always public.

| A property is slower to access than a variable, as reading or writing are done by a function and not a direct memory access. But it provides you full access control.

### See also

Property Declaration The Gambas Object Model