Now I know that it is not safe to modify the list during an iterative looping. However, suppose I have a list of strings, and I want to strip the strings themselves. Does replacement of mutable values count as modification? ...

I realise the second one avoids the overhead of a function call ( update , is actually a language construct), but it would be interesting to know if one is better than the other. I have been using unset() for most of my coding, but I've recently looked through a few respectable classes found off t...

I've been using the request/application context for some time without fully understanding how it works or why it was designed the way it was. What is the purpose of the "stack" when it comes to the request or application context? Are these two separate stacks, or are they both part of one stack? Is ...

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From what I can gather, there are three categories: 27 Answers 27 ...

This is a simple question from algorithms theory. The difference between them is that in one case you count number of nodes and in other number of edges on the shortest path between root and concrete node. Which is which? ...

I'm interested in exposing a direct REST interface to collections of JSON documents (think CouchDB or Persevere ). The problem I'm running into is how to handle the GET operation on the collection root if the collection is large. ...

I've been working with nodejs lately and still getting to grips with the module system so apologies if this is an obvious question. I want code roughly like the following below: ...

What is the main difference between view and table in SQL. Is there any advantage of using views instead of tables. 7 Answe...

Please consider this code. I have seen this type of code several times. words is a local vector. How is it possible to return it from a function? ...