How to refer to a component as something else

Question

I have to type transform.position.x a lot and I'm pretty sure there's a way to shorten it, but I don't remember how.

There's a way to refer to something else that I think is like this transform.position.x > x to make it so when you type x you're referring to transform.position.x. I know you can just make a variable that updates every frame, but I don't want to do that.

Answer 1

I think what you want is a property:

public class Foo : MonoBehaviour {
    float x => transform.position.x;
}

Now you can use x within the class Foo. Each time you use it, it gets the current value of transform.position.x.

You can also implement it for setting the value of transform.position.x:

public class Foo : MonoBehaviour {
    float x {
        get => transform.position.x;
        set {
            var position = transform.position;
            position.x = value;
            transform.position = position;
        }
    }
}