Just stumbled across an assert, that failed, as it compared false to the returntype of a function, as the function itself returned a bool and the assert checked not only the value, but also the type o
I know there\'s all sorts of counter-intuitive properties of Java\'s generic types. Here\'s one in particular that I don\'t understand, and which I\'m hoping someone can explain to me. When specifying
Maybe this question has been answered before, but the word if occurs so often it\'s hard to find it. The example doesn\'t make sense (the expression is always true), but it illustrates my question.
Some scripting languages, such as Python and Javascript, have arrays (aka lists) as a separate datatype from hash tables (aka dictionaries, maps, objects). In other scripting languages, such as PHP an
In one form or another I encounter the following question often (posed, here, in pseudo-code): String myString = \"Hello\"
A simple expression: Object val = true ? 1l : 0.5; What type is val? Well, logically, val should be a Long object with value 1. But Java thinks that val is a Double with value 1.0.
I am reading The Design and Evolution of C++, by Bjarne Stroustrup. Regarding exeception handling and asynchronous signals it is mentioned as below:
It is universally agreed that a list of n distinct symbols has n! permutations. However, when the symbols are not distinct, the most common convention, in mathematics and elsewhere, seems to be to cou
Neither underscores: scala> java.lang.Float.valueOf(\"1_2_3.4_5_6\") java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: \"1_2_3.4_5_6\"
See the below example: int arr[10]; int *p = arr; // 1st valid choice int (&r)[10] = arr; // 2nd valid choice