What do <> and [] mean when I see them in Unity?

[tai_an_Zhou]

I sometimes see <> in GetComponent<> calls. I see when arrays are being created, usually.

Are these the two main uses of them? Or are they a form of syntax I don’t understand?

[Nina]

Hi,

That’s right. In C#, we use [] for arrays and to access elements in arrays, List objects, dictionaries and other collections. And we use <> for generics like, for example, List<T>. In the context of Unity, common generics are GetComponent<T> and FindObjectOfType<T>.

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