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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide
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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide

by Terry Norton
September 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
292 pages
6h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Returning a value from a method

Now it's time to discover the "power" feature of using a method. This usually means sending data to the method, which you just learned to do, then have the method return a value back. Previously, all you had the AddTwoNumbers() method do was take the result of adding two numbers and display it to Unity's Console.

Now, instead of displaying the result directly, you're going to modify AddTwoNumbers() to return the result of the addition back to the place the method was called.

Note

Remember, I told you that when you call a method, it's just a substitute for the code block that will be executed. It's like taking all the code in the method's code block and placing it right there where the method was called.

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