Multiple GUI Button Registering

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I’m currently looking into doing some GUI stuff and was wondering when it came down to button registering, what’s the most efficient way to do so.

Like say I had n amount of buttons, would the best method be to use a loop to go through each button and see if its registered or not like:

local buttons = {} -- Array of button elements
-- Print the button that was activated
local function register(btn)
    print("Button", btn.Name, "Registered")
end
-- Loop through all the buttons
local function btnRegister()
    for i = 1, #buttons, 1 do
        buttons[i].MouseButton1Click:Connect(register)
    end
end

or would the really messy approach be better:

local b1 = parent.B1
local b2 = parent.B2
local b3 = parent.B3
-- Print the button that was activated
local function register(btn)
     print("Button", btn.Name, "Registered")
end
-- Listen for all buttons
b1.MouseButton1Click:Connect(register)
b2.MouseButton1Click:Connect(register)
b3.MouseButton1Click:Connect(register)

Or is there some other method I’m not aware of for this kind of system, any help would be greatly appreciated

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MouseButton1Click does not pass an argument when fired.
It really depends on the case, if you want the buttons to do the same thing, then you can just loop through a table with them and connect the same function to MouseButton1Down.

local buttons = {};
table.insert(buttons, BUTTON_LOCATION);

local registered = {};
for _, x in next, buttons do
	registered[x] = x.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function() --// register button function
		print('Button', x.Name, 'was clicked.');
		registered[x]:Disconnect() --// button no longer works after first click
	end);
end;

Something like this ^

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