Merge pull request #68747 from rune-scape/rune-stringname-unification

GDScript: Unify StringName and String

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/gdscript/tests/scripts/runtime/features/dictionary_string_stringname_equivalent.gd b/modules/gdscript/tests/scripts/runtime/features/dictionary_string_stringname_equivalent.gd
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+# https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/62957
+
+func test():
+	var string_dict = {}
+	string_dict["abc"] = 42
+	var stringname_dict = {}
+	stringname_dict[&"abc"] = 24
+
+	print("String key is TYPE_STRING: ", typeof(string_dict.keys()[0]) == TYPE_STRING)
+	print("StringName key is TYPE_STRING: ", typeof(stringname_dict.keys()[0]) == TYPE_STRING)
+
+	print("StringName gets String: ", string_dict.get(&"abc"))
+	print("String gets StringName: ", stringname_dict.get("abc"))
+
+	stringname_dict[&"abc"] = 42
+  # They compare equal because StringName keys are converted to String.
+	print("String Dictionary == StringName Dictionary: ", string_dict == stringname_dict)