I agree this might be a very beginner's question, but I have no idea why I can't use '.' to access a member of a pointer to an object. e.g. JMP *sum_obj = new JMP("0"); JMP a; sum_o...

I was doing a question on CodeWars and practicing some functional programming when I encountered a problem while trying to apply a function to a value. So I made a pass() function that accepts a fu...

I want to write a function point-free in haskell, to keep things simple lets say I want to make this function: maxmin :: Ord a => a -> a -> a -> a maxmin a b c = max a (min b c) I ca...

When iterating over an vector (or other container) of pointers, is there any difference between and/or over advantage using: for (it = v.begin(); it != v.end(); ++it) { (*it)->method(); } or...

I'm trying to wrap my head around some of the differences in usage and syntax in C vs. Objective-C. In particular, I want to know how (and why) the usage differs for the dot operator and the arrow ...

The following scenario is given, to be interpreted as C++0x code: struct B { }; struct A { B b; }; int main() { B const& b = A().b; /* is the object still alive here? */ } Clang and GC...