Properties
With knowledge of the cornerstones of a type’s operations and state under our belts, we can proceed with our exploration of other members available on classes and structs. Properties are a mix between state and operations. On the one hand, they’re like fields providing get and set access to a piece of state; on the other hand, they’re like methods because those get and set operations can contain code. For those reasons, properties are sometimes said to be smart fields.
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