Concept Problem: I have a very simple problem when using the touches attribute, to automatically update timestamp on a depending model; it correctly does so but also applies the global scopes. Is...

This question got me wondering whether it is ever useful/necessary to fully qualify class names (including the global scope operator) in an out-of-class member function definition. On the one hand...

I am a student and I am confused about global and file scope variables in C and C++. Is there any difference in both perspectives? If yes, please explain in detail.

Can someone please explain the difference between ViewState and Session? More specifically, I'd like to know the best way to keep an object available (continuously setting members through postback...

Consider the following simple example: #include <iostream> int a=5;//1 extern int a;//2 int main(){ cout << a; } The standard said that (sec. 3.4/1): Name lookup shall find an u...

Short Form: How can I define an alias for the root (global) namespace in C++11 ? It might look like namespace root_namespace = :: ; where the scope resolution operator in its naked form above is ...

After a few years in PHP development, I saw and heard various ways for storing "global scope data" (globals, constants, ini/XML/YML files, database, singleton properties...). By "global scope data...

It is fairly well known in JavaScript that declaring variables within the global scope is a bad thing. So code I tend to work on contains namespaced JavaScript. There seems to be two different app...