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#22

You’re more than welcome Dave :slight_smile:

Great that you have moved forward and made progress with it, sleep is over-rated, coffee though, absolutely! :coffee: :slight_smile:

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#23

Hi Chirs, So brackets does help in any way? I am not able to find anything about it.

#24

Hi Manzeet,

In the case of strings it is unnecessary. Obviously with maths you may want to include them to ensure an order of priority, but for strings, no need.

private void Start()
{
    string brackets = ("Some text");
    string noBrackets = "Some text";

    Debug.Log(brackets);
    Debug.Log(noBrackets);
}

The output is the same, it’s also considerably easier to read when looking at your code but two significant benefits of not using the brackets are;

  • reducing the risk of repetitive strain injury
  • not wearing out the paint on the ( and ) keys on your keyboard

:slight_smile:

Note: You are unlikely to see the brackets used in other coding examples online such as Microsoft or Unity documentation

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#25

Thanks for the quick response. I can sleep peacefully now.

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#26

hehe, you’re very welcome - sweet dreams! :sleeping: :zzz:

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#28

Hello Rick. I have a informative question.
I was checking unity documents and saw this.
m_MyText.text = "Text has changed.";
On the udemy class you sugested like this;
textComponent.text = ("I am added programmaticlly! ");
with the brackes.
i would like to ask you whats the diference on using brackets or not using them or they are just two diferent ways of writing the same.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UI.Text-text.html

#29

Hi @gabrielforgames, the parentheses are unnecessary in this case, they are just a habit that I personally have which stems from requiring them for debug.log statements and for any situation where we join multiple chunks of information together (“this” + “this”). They still work, but are not needed.

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