Time for action – adding ponies using a Collection Initializer

If we know the items to add ahead of time, we can add them when we create the List or Dictionary.

1. Modify LearningScript as shown in the next screenshot.

2. Save the file.

3. In Unity, click on Play.

What just happened?

Here's the Console output:

The analysis of the code is as follows:

• The code on lines 8 and 9 with its description:

  List<string> myFavoritePonies = new List<string>() {"Princess Cadence", Fluttershy"};

  This is actually a single statement. It's on two lines to make it fit the screenshot.

  Line 9 shows the Collection Initializer that's been added to the usual List declaration.

  Notice the pony names are between two curly braces. This is not a code block. This is another use of curly braces.

  This List Collection Initializer is the two curly braces and the strings, the pony names, that are between them.

  Notice there is a semicolon after the last curly brace. This ends the List declaration statement.

• The code between lines...