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Collections also provide you with an easy way to do simple statistical calculations. $books = [ ['title' => 'The Pragmatic Programmer', 'price' => 20], ['title' => 'Continuous Delivery', 'price' => 30], ['title' => 'The Clean Coder', 'price' => 10], ] $min = col...

In Java, parent and child class both can have static methods with the same name. But in such cases implementation of static method in child is hiding parent class' implementation, it's not method overriding. For example: class StaticMethodTest { // static method and inheritance public stati...

use-fixtures allows to wrap each deftest in namespace with code that runs before and after test. It can be used for fixtures or stubbing. Fixtures are just functions that take test function and run it with other necessary steps (before/after, wrap). (ns myapp.test (require [clojure.test :refer ...

The following design pattern is categorized as a creational pattern. An abstract factory is used to provide an interface for creating families of related objects, without specifying concrete classes and can be used to hide platform specific classes. interface Tool { void use(); } interf...

A variable can be downcasted to a subtype using the type cast operators as?, and as!. The as? operator attempts to cast to a subtype. It can fail, therefore it returns an optional. let value: Any = "John" let name = value as? String print(name) // prints Optional("John") ...

The switch statement can also be used to attempt casting into different types: func checkType(_ value: Any) -> String { switch value { // The `is` operator can be used to check a type case is Double: return "value is a Double" // The `as` operator will ...

@Scope @Documented @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface ActivityScope { } Scopes are just annotations and you can create your own ones where needed.

A String can be read from an InputStream using the byte array constructor. import java.io.*; public String readString(InputStream input) throws IOException { byte[] bytes = new byte[50]; // supply the length of the string in bytes here input.read(bytes); return new String(bytes); ...

Cons-cells, structures, vectors, lists and such can be matched with constructor patterns. (loop for i from 1 to 30 do (format t "~5<~a~;~>" (match (cons (mod i 3) (mod i 5)) ((cons 0 0) "Fizzbuzz")...

CL-PPCRE:REGISTER-GROUPS-BIND will match a string against a regular expression, and if it matches, bind register groups in the regex to variables. If the string does not match, NIL is returned. (defun parse-date-string (date-string) (cl-ppcre:register-groups-bind (year month day) (...

Say you want to print variables in a 3 character column. Note: doubling { and } escapes them. s = """ pad {{:3}} :{a:3}: truncate {{:.3}} :{e:.3}: combined {{:>3.3}} :{a:>3.3}: {{:3.3}} :{a:3.3}: {{:3.3}} :{c:3...

Member member/2 has signature member(?Elem, ?List) and denotes true if Elem is a member of List. This predicate can be used to access variables in a list, where different solutions are retrieved through backtracking. Example queries: ?- member(X, [1,2,3]). X = 1 ; X = 2 ; X = 3. ?- member(X...

XML <Data> <BioLight> <name>Firefly</name> <model>Insect</model> </BioLight> <ArtificialLight> <name>Fire</name> <model>Natural element</model> <source>flint<...

XML <College> <FootBall> <Members>20</Members> <Coach>Archie Theron</Coach> <Name>Wild cats</Name> <StarFootballer>David Perry</StarFootballer> </FootBall> <Academics> ...

XML <College> <FootBall> <Members>20</Members> <Coach>Archie Theron</Coach> <Name>Wild cats</Name> <StarPlayer>David Perry</StarPlayer> </FootBall> <VolleyBall> <Me...

XML <Galaxy> <name>Milky Way</name> <CelestialObject name="Earth" type="planet"/> <CelestialObject name="Sun" type="star"/> </Galaxy> XPATH /Galaxy/*[contains(@name,'Ear')] or //*[contains(@name,'Ear...

XML <Galaxy> <name>Milky Way</name> <CelestialObject name="Earth" type="planet"/> <CelestialObject name="Sun" type="star"/> </Galaxy> XPATH /Galaxy/*[contains(lower-case(@name),'ear')] or //*[contain...

XML <Galaxy> <name>Milky Way</name> <CelestialObject name="Earth" type="planet"/> <CelestialObject name="Sun" type="star"/> </Galaxy> XPATH /Galaxy/*[starts-with(lower-case(@name),'ear')] or //*[star...

XML <Galaxy> <name>Milky Way</name> <CelestialObject name="Earth" type="planet"/> <CelestialObject name="Sun" type="star"/> </Galaxy> XPATH /Galaxy/*[ends-with(lower-case(@type),'tar')] or //*[ends-w...

While System.Diagnostics.Contracts is included within the .Net Framework. To use Code Contracts you must install the Visual Studio extensions. Under Extensions and Updates search for Code Contracts then install the Code Contracts Tools After the tools are installed you must enable Code Contract...