Magic strings in Unity 3D

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• shanemarks

  12:49pm 22 Jul 2015

  We deal with this by just not using magic strings altogether ;)
  
  We avoid searching by name and by tag at all cost. We would usually design some sort of object pool to track what is what.
  
  In some cases in unavoidable, i.e. layers, but that can be managed I guess by storing the bit that the layer references.
• dislekcia

  1:08pm 22 Jul 2015

  We use an enum abstraction for layers and auto-generate the enum whenever the layers change in the editor.

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• mattbenic

  6:38am 23 Jul 2015

  Nice approach @Dislekcia, do you do that explicitly with an editor script?
• dislekcia

  9:40am 23 Jul 2015

  mattbenic said:

  Nice approach @Dislekcia, do you do that explicitly with an editor script?

  Yup. You'd have to ask @Squidcor for the specifics, but there's a menu entry to re-generate the enum.
• Squidcor

  9:48am 23 Jul 2015

  @mattbenic: it's a menu item script. Although, it would be easy to tie it to a recompilation callback or something. I hate string referencing and anything not type safe.

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