Writing C# statements properly

When you do normal writing, it's in the form of a sentence, with a period used to end the sentence. When you write a line of code, it's called a statement, with a semicolon used to end the statement.

Note

The reason a statement ends with a semicolon is so that Unity knows when the statement ends. A period can't be used because it is used in the dot syntax.

The code for a C# statement does not have to be on a single line as shown in the following example:

public int number1 = 2;

The statement can be on several lines. Whitespace and carriage returns are ignored, so, if you really want to, you can write it as follows:

public
int
number1
=
2;

However, I do not recommend writing your code like this because it's terrible to read code that is formatted like the preceding code. Nevertheless, there will be times when you'll have to write long statements—longer than one line. Unity won't care. It just needs to see the semicolon at the end.