... <xsl:call-template> is a close equivalent to calling a function in a traditional programming language. You can define functions in XSLT, like this simple one that outputs a string. <xsl:template name="dosomething"> &l...

... Now you've merged all the good ideas from the others into your solution ... :-P still, this is pretty much what I'd do after all. I'll accept this answer. Thanks, everyone – Johannes Charra Nov 11 '09 at ...

...they are in scope. Perhaps a byte-code engineering library like ASM would allow you to inspect this information at runtime. The only reasonable place I can think of for needing this information is in a development tool, and so byte-code engineering is likely to be useful for other purposes too. ...

...ant to understand well its parameters width, threshold, distance and above all prominence to get a good peak extraction. According to my tests and the documentation, the concept of prominence is "the useful concept" to keep the good peaks, and discard the noisy peaks. What is (topographic) promine...

As far as I can tell, there's no reason I shouldn't be allowed to pass a reference to a pointer in C++. However, my attempts to do so are failing, and I have no idea why. ...

...constant can be converted to std::nullptr_t. The opposite direction is not allowed. This allows overloading a function for both pointers and integers, and passing nullptr to select the pointer version. Passing NULL or 0 would confusingly select the int version. A cast of nullptr_t to an integral ty...

...format. Casting a HashMap into JSON when making the request wasn't hard at all but the other way seems to be a little tricky. The JSON response looks like this: ...

... useful construct when trying to hide variables from the parent namespace. All the code within the function is contained in the private scope of the function, meaning it can't be accessed at all from outside the function, making it truly private. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_%28comput...

...e your program unreadable and unmaintainable, polluting its namespace with all the static members you import. Readers of your code (including you, a few months after you wrote it) will not know which class a static member comes from. Importing all of the static members from a class can be particular...

...the evaluation in the method body? As described in this SO answer you actually can have the same @RequestMapping and use a different annotation to differentiate during the actual routing that happens during runtime. To do so, you will have to: Create a new annotation VersionRange. Implement a Req...