@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ behave differently depending on the hardware.
535535 }
536536
537537 Instead, always perform a range comparison with an epsilon value. The larger the
538- floating-point number (and the less precise the floating-point number, the
538+ floating-point number (and the less precise the floating-point number) , the
539539larger the epsilon value should be.
540540
541541.. code-block :: glsl
@@ -551,9 +551,15 @@ information.
551551Discarding
552552----------
553553
554- Fragment and light functions can use the ** discard ** keyword. If used, the
554+ Fragment and light functions can use the `` discard `` keyword. If used, the
555555fragment is discarded and nothing is written.
556556
557+ Beware that ``discard `` has a performance cost when used, as it will prevent the
558+ depth prepass from being effective on any surfaces using the shader. Also, a
559+ discarded pixel still needs to be rendered in the vertex shader, which means a
560+ shader that uses ``discard `` on all of its pixels is still more expensive to
561+ render compared to not rendering any object in the first place.
562+
557563Functions
558564---------
559565
@@ -574,7 +580,8 @@ syntax:
574580
575581
576582 You can only use functions that have been defined above (higher in the editor)
577- the function from which you are calling them.
583+ the function from which you are calling them. Redefining a function that has
584+ already been defined above (or is a built-in function name) will cause an error.
578585
579586Function arguments can have special qualifiers:
580587
@@ -592,6 +599,14 @@ Example below:
592599 result = a + b;
593600 }
594601
602+ .. note ::
603+
604+ Unlike GLSL, Godot's shader language does **not ** support function
605+ overloading. This means that a function cannot be defined several times with
606+ different argument types or numbers of arguments. As a workaround, use
607+ different names for functions that accept a different number of arguments or
608+ arguments of different types.
609+
595610Varyings
596611--------
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