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No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically.
Say for example I want to describe a car.
It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on.
When is it an attribute and when is it a property?
Or is there an even better word?
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There is none. Field, property, attribute are mostly interchangeable AFAIK.
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den2k88 wrote: property, attribute are mostly interchangeable AFAIK
disagree, it's contextually dependent.
Example: a yellow banana
property: banana - it can not be anything else (excluding if destroyed)
attribute: color: yellow - the color of the banana can change - left alone will become brown, black, slime, destroyed
but the color itself (not color of the banana) is a property. yellow is yellow, it can be no other.
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Nah, Banana would by the type and Colour would be a property/attribute of the Banana type
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Surely the type would be Fruit, as part of an assembly of Healthy in a project called Food?
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Sounds like a fun weekend project, just need to spend 8 hours coming up with a solution name now 
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Only if the only thing you are going to do with fruit is classify them. If fruits have behavior, then banana is a derived class of fruit, and color is an attribute of banana. Your solution isn't very object oriented.
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I would argue that the color/colour would be a calculated field that is based on the age of the banana. It actually seems like it should really be more than a color to account for spots.
class Banana {
DateTime _estimatedPollinationDateTime;
DateTime _pickedDateTime;
Color getBaseColor() {
return colorFunc(_pickedDateTime);
}
Pattern getPattern() {
... 10% spotted
}
Boolean isEdible() {
return true;
}
}
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property is the value of an attribute?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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They other way around maybe.
modified 7-Mar-19 14:10pm.
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a property is, well a property - the land under your house. Can't move it, it's fixed.
an attribute is the house, can replace it, can completely remove it, grass is an attribute, a hole in the proptery is an attribute - all those can be changed.
sooo, everything about your car is an attribute. The fact it is a car is a property.
ok, can get silly and ask "what if I remove all the wheels, is it still a car?"
well, it weelie is still a car, just missing some of it's attributes (so not a very useful car).
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Lopatir wrote: Can't move it, it's fixed.
In .Net, properties can have get and set methods which means they are not treated that way, in .Net at least.
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OP: Quote: No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically.
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Yes, I read that. But the meaning in .Net might actually be the real meaning. Just saying.
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When you list up the someone's inner properties, it's a tribute.
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I rather liked this one. bookmarked.
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If you have a property, you will have to pay a tribute 
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Lopatir wrote: sooo, everything about your car is an attribute. The fact it is a car is a property.
So the colour of the car is an attribute.
The wheel is a property in it self, but an attribute to the car?
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What if I added some more properties and turned it into a boat and a helicopter all at once? Also it's important that it runs on raspberry juice (or whale oil) and has a robot as the pilot[^].
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I'd say the house is a property, the windows are an attribute, actually the land is the equivalent of field which ties in quite nicely with .net.
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Within .Net, my understanding is that a property will have a getter and/or a setter with possibly some logic in them. And an attribute would just be a public variable, for example, where there is no logic in the get and set.
But that is just from my experience, nothing official. Could be totally wrong.
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I know the difference in .Net, it's the lingual difference or semantics I'm after.
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OP:Quote: No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Or is there an even better word?
A feature.
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So a bug? 
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