# This & stage?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-stage/314540>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 1, 2010, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-stage/314540 "2010-10-01T09:46:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ushbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@ushbe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ushbe)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-stage/314540/1 "2010-10-01T09:46:20Z")

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This may sound silly, can anyone tell me what the difference between these 3 codes?

```auto
(1)stage.addChild(myMC)
(2)addChild(myMC)
(3)this.addChild(myMC)

```