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BoorishBears on Feb 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: C# Pattern Matching

Unity used to take advantage of overloading to implement null checking with "sentinel values" representing a non-existent reference in the Editor

I found this post explaining they considered moving away from the pattern, but I'm not sure if they followed through:

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/16/custom-operator-should-...

marijnz on Feb 5, 2020 | [–]

They didn't move away from the pattern and can't anymore as it would break almost every existing Unity project.

sedatk on Feb 5, 2020 | [–]

Yeah that means OP’s advice would actually break the code written for unity.

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