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Is there a term that describes a function that takes no arguments more concisely than "function that takes no arguments"? (In the same way that e.g. "higher order function" means "function that tak...
Chitin asked 27/4, 2011 at 15:1
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I understand that abstraction is about taking something more concrete and making it more abstract. That something may be either a data structure or a procedure. For example:
Data abstraction: A r...
Hereinbefore asked 10/10, 2013 at 9:19
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Yes, I know that "cdecl" is the name of a prominent calling convention, so please don't explain calling conventions to me. What I'm asking is what the abbreviation (?) "cdecl" actually stands for. ...
Howie asked 13/2, 2011 at 21:0
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I'm going through all sorts of WPF documentation, and I'm feeling unnecessarily confused. The term 'business logic' is scattered throughout it, as if everyone should know what it is.
I can ...
Recurvate asked 17/9, 2009 at 20:38
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In some documents (i.e. ECMA-334) the name of '.NET framework' is used, but in other documents (in many books), '.NET platform' is used. I saw someone refer .NET as .NET environment.
Which one is...
Valentine asked 12/4, 2010 at 14:3
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Does the following syntax have a name?
print for ( @ARGV );
exit if $x;
Flavory asked 19/4, 2011 at 16:8
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Is there a name for logical AND with the negation (~) of the second variable, i.e:
A & (~B)
The truth table for such operation is:
0 & (~0) = 0
0 & (~1) = 0
1 & (~0) = 1
1 &...
Communistic asked 26/11, 2012 at 13:31
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My question might sound stupid but I have noticed that . and % is often used in R and to be frank I don't really know why it is used.
I have seen it in dplyr (go here for an example) and data.tabl...
Fanchon asked 19/12, 2014 at 5:54
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I'm looking for a directed weighted graph simplification algorithm that seeks chains of nodes which have exactly one inbound edge and exactly one outbound edge and are interconnected and replaces s...
Apperceive asked 12/7, 2016 at 16:6
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Where did the name <*> first begin to appear in literature or code, and did it come with any explanation for the choice of symbol?
Rafa asked 18/3, 2016 at 8:34
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when using doctrine i stumble upon these 2 words: accessor and mutator.
are these only used in doctrine or are they specific for php?
and what do they mean?
thanks
Phan asked 4/5, 2010 at 6:0
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What is the difference between a heuristic and an algorithm?
Tiltyard asked 25/2, 2010 at 13:22
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There are (at least) three ways to link to a resource:
href="foo/bar.html"
href="/foo/bar.html"
href="http://example.com/foo/bar.html"
The first is a "relative url", no problem. But I've seen (...
Firepower asked 1/7, 2013 at 14:25
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I was just curious about the nomenclature of certain variables part of DNS's RFC: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
While I was able to find most other acronyms :
AN in ANCOUNT seems stands ...
Laktasic asked 16/8, 2015 at 2:44
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This question will draw information from the draft N1570, so C11 basically.
Colloquially, to dereference a pointer means to apply the unary * operator to a pointer. There is only one place where ...
Weese asked 12/12, 2014 at 13:58
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It's been rehashed over and over that primitive types don't have constructors. For example this _bar is not initialized to 0 when I call Foo():
class Foo{
int _bar;
};
So obviously int() is not...
Wheaten asked 12/12, 2014 at 12:19
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I find that I frequently end up writing a function that I always call "clamp()", that is kind of a combination of min() and max(). Is there a standard, "canonical" name for this function?
It alway...
Applejack asked 5/2, 2009 at 15:55
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Quick question: I'd like to hear your thoughts on when to use "State" versus "Status" when naming both fields such as "Foo.currentState" vs "Foo.status" and types, like "enum FooState" vs "en...
Krueger asked 22/7, 2009 at 2:44
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OK. I may be splitting hairs here, but my code isn't consistent and I'd like to make it so. But before I do, I want to make sure I'm going the right way. In practice this doesn't matter, but this h...
Pointdevice asked 6/4, 2010 at 18:26
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I'm relatively new to Clojure but I've noticed many projects implement a "core" namespace; e.g. foobar.core seems to be a very common pattern. What's the history behind this and why is it the de fa...
Marquismarquisate asked 7/4, 2013 at 22:11
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I've always been a bit curious about the rationale of the naming of site-packages. What does site mean in this context? I doubt it means 'website', and I've never heard 'site' used in relation to t...
Gavelkind asked 20/4, 2012 at 13:31
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What are the backtick operators (``) called in the context of evaluating their content?
Fin asked 14/5, 2011 at 14:2
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I'm confused by the GTK terminology. According to Wikipedia, there seem to be bindings to GTK+ that are called GTK (GtkAda) and GTK2 (gtk2hs, Gtk2-Perl).
Could someone clear this up for me?
Milla asked 29/4, 2011 at 10:12
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Sometimes I've been trying to come up with a good variable name for minutes, when I realize that it isn't worth the effort for this tiny loop. Is there any situation where it would be justified to ...
Annalee asked 12/3, 2011 at 20:7
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(function() {
//do stuff
})();
EDIT: I originally thought this construct was called a closure - not that the effect that it caused results (potentially) in a closure - if variables are c...
Felsite asked 6/10, 2010 at 12:53
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