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protected

Expose through inheritance

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Use fields for direct data. Use a property when read or write policy is part of the object's contract and you accept its experimental status.

protected

Status: experimental

Complete program

Model a player profile with explicit member access and property shapes. This class example uses the CPU oracle.

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class Profile
{
    public text displayName = "Nova"
    private int secret = 7
    protected int rank = 1
    internal int region = 2
    readonly text id = "player-1"
    int level { get; set; }
    text createdBy { get; init; }
}
Profile player = Profile()
player.level = 3
Console.Log(player.displayName)
Console.Log(Text.From(player.level))
project.mech
manifestVersion = "2"
package = "api.example.word__protected"
version = "0.1.0"
languageEdition = "yeho-core-2026.1"

[app]
kind = "headless"
Notes and source

Properties require get and cannot combine set with init.

Computed property bodies are unavailable; current properties describe access shape.

yeho/parser_declarations.cpp parseThingMemberModifiers and parseThingPropertyAccessors; conformance properties