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Question Why MonoBehaviour.print() starts with a small letter?

Discussion in 'Scripting' started by redhuck, Sep 20, 2023.

  1. redhuck

    redhuck

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    Hello,

    This should be a very basic issue but I'm quite curious.
    In Unity, My understanding is that a name of a method starts with a capital letter, for example MonoBehaviour.GetComponent(), MonoBehaviour.Destroy(), MonoBehaviour.ToString(), etc.

    But why MonoBehaviour.print() starts with a small letter p, not being MonoBehaviour.Print() but MonoBehaviour.print()?

    Thanks in advance....
     
    redhuck, Sep 20, 2023
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  2. MelvMay

    MelvMay

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    Maybe it's related to the fact that many languages have a basic "print" method to output to the console/output stream so it was likely put there to enable a short-form and familiar call i.e. printing the contents.

    In the end, it's just a call to "Debug.Log()"

    Originally Unity supported C#, Javascript and Boo too.

    The 100% actual reason; not sure. :)
     
    MelvMay, Sep 20, 2023
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  3. Elhimp

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    ...and then there 
    Unity.Mathematics.math
     
    Elhimp, Sep 20, 2023
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  4. Bunny83

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    Well that's also a compatibility thing I guess. The math library aims at compatibility with HLSL. The "print" method (which is just a less powerful wrapper of Debug.Log and depends on a MonoBehaviour instance) was most likely just added for the other languages back then. Specifically Boo which was / is a .NET language with a python-like syntax.

    The reason why they made the mathematics library lower case is explained here:
     
    Bunny83, Sep 20, 2023
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  5. redhuck

    redhuck

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    It makes sense.
    Thank you very much!
     
    redhuck, Sep 20, 2023
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