In the following piece of code (taken from the Groovy Semantics Manual page), why prefix the assignment with the keyword def? def x = 0 def y = 5...
I’ve seen default used next to function declarations in a class. What does it do? class C { C(const C&) = default; C(C&&) = default; C& operator=(const C&) &...
One use of the var keyword in C# is implicit type declaration. What is the Java equivalent syntax for var? 15 Answers 15
I heard about a “yield” keyword in JavaScript, but I found very poor documentation about it. Can someone explain me (or recommend a site that explains) its usage and...
I’m confused about this. Most of us have been told that there isn’t any goto statement in Java. But I found that it is one of the keywords in...
I have a a dictionary mapping keywords to the repetition of the keyword, but I only want a list of distinct words so I wanted to count the number...
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This is a silly question, but you can use this code to check if something is a particular type… if (child is IContainer) { //.... Is there a more...