.... Instead of doing (sizeof a / sizeof *a) Change your code so that it now does (sizeof array_size(a)) share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...nge you ever need to make in the code (not just bugfixes, any change) will now be twice as expensive to do because you have to update two places - and more risky because you WILL forget one of them eventually. In other words, making it work faster now will make your work even slower in the future, w...

...locate is used when the SVN server's location changes. switch is only used if you want to change your local working copy to another branch or another path. If using TortoiseSVN, you may follow instructions from the TortoiseSVN Manual. If using the SVN command line interface, refer to this section o...

...ure what I'm doing wrong here. I installed the Android SDK Manager, and am now trying to install a platform like the Android Dev website suggests. Once I clicked install I got an error stating that the Manager could not create a temp folder within the Android directory. So I created it. Now I'm gett...

... Interfaces and their methods are implicitly abstract and adding that modifier makes no difference. Is there other rules that applies with an abstract interface? No, same rules apply. The method must be implemented by any (concrete) implementing class. If abstract is obsolete, why is it ...

... show which operating system someone is using. What it does is that, it sniffs your core operating system model, for example windows nt 5.1 as my own. It then passes windows nt 5.1/i to Windows XP as the operating system. Using: '/windows nt 5.1/i' => 'Windows XP', from an array. You could s...

...ter that it gets filtered again on the client case sensitively. Of course, if you happen to have thousands of entries that match case insensitive, but only one of them is the correct one case sensitive, then it's a lot of overhead. But I don't think that reality will present such scenarios... :) ...

... function, class, or module in which they're assigned. Control blocks like if and while blocks don't count, so a variable assigned inside an if is still scoped to a function, class, or module. (Implicit functions defined by a generator expression or list/set/dict comprehension do count, as do lambd...

... An interface can't have behavior or state because it is intended to specify only an interaction contract, no implementation details. 'No behavior' is enforced by not allowing method/constructor bodies or static/instance initializing blocks. 'No state' is enforced by only allowing static final fie...

... It also blows up if a & b don't contain the same number of elements, or aren't "addable" (ex: map(operator.add, (1,2), ("3", "4")) – Adam Parkin Feb 13 '12 at 21:09 ...