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Chapter 12. Properties > Properties as Documentation
Properties as Documentation
In addition to their other virtues, properties serve as a form of documentation for your classes. They are more compact and more readable than the method declarations they replace, and they carry more information. They tell you if a property is read-only, something about how the property is stored, and whether its accessors are thread safe.
Look at the property declaration for the employeeNumber property in the Employee class:
