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Hi everyone, I just created a new project with Kotlin Gradle scripts.
I have a property defined in `gradle.properties` :
```com.foo.myproperty=bar```
What is the idiomatic way to read that property from scripts ?
The property delegate syntax `val myProperty by project` makes it mandatory to declare a variable with the same name as the property.
Moreover, it seems that there is no `settings.property("com.foo.myproperty")` function.

the delegate is the way to go unless you have variable names incompatible with kotlin variable naming. in settings it's just `by settings` instead of `by project`
if your names are not compatible with kotlin var naming, then: `extra["your.prop.name"]` in both project and settings, if you're nesting it you could spefity the receiver explicitely, just in case: `settings.extra["..."]`

I tend to use `findProperty("com.foo.myproperty") as? String`

can you do a delegate for a property with dots? that's most of them

for properties with dots, I've ended up just using `project.properties["name.of.the.property"].toString()`