You could make it a private property, the private property can only be accessed by the class (see property attributes). You're probably also best to initialise obj.data in the constructor; this means you wont have to invoke the function obj.setting, data is created when the object is instatiated:
classdef setting
properties (Access = private)
data
end
methods
function obj = setting %rename load_setting to setting to make it a constructor
obj.data = 'someData';
end
function test(obj)
obj.data
end
end
end
Calling obj.test, demonstrates that you can access the data property, obj.data, anywhere inside your class:
s = setting
s.test
ans =
'someData'
