I'm trying to understand the conceptual difference between call by reference, value, and name. So I have the following pseudocode: foo(a, b, c) { b =b++; a = a++; c = a + b*10 } X=1; Y=2; Z=3...

I'm attempting to chain Iterators: var it = Iterator(1) it.next it = Iterator(2) ++ it it.next it.hasNext This infinitely loops on the hasNext as you can see here: https://scastie.scala-lang.org...

I am going through the book "Functional Programming in Scala" and have run across an example that I don't fully understand. In the chapter on strictness/laziness the authors describe the construct...

In python we can do this: def myFun1(one = '1', two = '2'): ... Then we can call the function and pass the arguments by their name: myFun1(two = 'two', one = 'one') Also, we can do this: de...

I've checked Wikipedia and googled but I still can't wrap my mind around how pass-by-name works in ALGOL 60.

Imagine I have the following class definition: class Foo[T] and I want to do the following def bar(x:Foo[ =>Int ]):Int = ??? But compiler fails with "no by-name parameter type allowed here...

Given this Scala code: object test { def byval(a: Int) = println("Int") def byval(a: Long) = println("Long") def byname(a: => Int) = println("=> Int") def byname(a: => Long) = print...

Lets say I know a guy who is new to C++. He does not pass around pointers (rightly so) but he refuses to pass by reference. He uses pass by value always. Reason being that he feels that "passing ob...