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

[redhuck]

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…

[MelvMay]

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.

[Elhimp]

…and then there Unity.Mathematics.math

[Bunny83]

@Elhimp

and then there
Unity.Mathematics.math

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:

In C# int and float are considered builtin types. Burst extends this set of bultin types to also include vectors, matrices and quaternions. These types are bultin in the sense that Burst knows about them and is be able to generate better code using these types than what would be possible with equivalent code using custom types.

To signify that these types are bultin their type names are in all lower case. The operators on these bultin types found in Unity.Mathematics.math are considered intrinsics and are thus always in lower case.

[redhuck]

It makes sense.
Thank you very much!