Will GDScript change in Godot 3.0?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By aggsol
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Will GDScript differ largely in Godot compared to 2.1?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: volzhs

Some of classes and functions will be renamed or deprecated.
And there will be enhanced script features.

Take a look at Juan’s twitter.
https://twitter.com/reduzio

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: Zylann

Not very much on the language itself, but a few things will:

Instead of get_pos(), you’ll be able to simply write position. Same for other things that were “properties” on nodes but that needed get_ and set_ to be read and changed.

_process, _fixed_process, _input etc will be called by default if they are present in the script, no need to explicitely set_process(true) etc anymore.

Dictionaries will be sorted by key insertion order when using a for loop to iterate over them. So I guess if you load some JSON you will get keys in the same order as encountered in the JSON file. While I don’t like this (due to performance hit even when you don’t need it) it can come handy in several cases.

A more efficient syntax to iterate between 0 and N:

for i in 10: # same as for i in range(0, 10)
    print(str(i))

range was creating an array behind the scenes, the new syntax does it without.

Also, a lot of classes and function names will change (but that goes beyond GDScript). For a more detailed list of compatibility breakage, you can have a look at this doc Godot 3.0 breakage - Google Tabellen

Dictionaries will be sorted by key insertion order when using a for loop to iterate over them. So I guess if you load some JSON you will get keys in the same order as encountered in the JSON file.

nice, i didnt like doing that by hand

ingo_nikot | 2017-01-12 15:36