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Simple recursion Using recursion and the ternary conditional operator, we can create an alternative implementation of the built-in factorial function: myfactorial(n) = n == 0 ? 1 : n * myfactorial(n - 1) Usage: julia> myfactorial(10) 3628800 Working with trees Recursive functions are o...

We can use the :: syntax to dispatch on the type of an argument. describe(n::Integer) = "integer $n" describe(n::AbstractFloat) = "floating point $n" Usage: julia> describe(10) "integer 10" julia> describe(1.0) "floating point 1.0" Unlike m...

A long-form syntax is available for defining multi-line functions. This can be useful when we use imperative structures such as loops. The expression in tail position is returned. For instance, the below function uses a for loop to compute the factorial of some integer n: function myfactorial(n) ...

Functions are objects in Julia. Like any other objects, they can be passed as arguments to other functions. Functions that accept functions are known as higher-order functions. For instance, we can implement an equivalent of the standard library's foreach function by taking a function f as the firs...

Arrow syntax Anonymous functions can be created using the -> syntax. This is useful for passing functions to higher-order functions, such as the map function. The below function computes the square of each number in an array A. squareall(A) = map(x -> x ^ 2, A) An example of using this fu...

Sometimes you will have a grid of subplots, and you want to have a single legend that describes all the lines for each of the subplots as in the following image. In order to do this, you will need to create a global legend for the figure instead of creating a legend at the axes level (which wil...

Deferred function calls serve a similar purpose to things like finally blocks in languages like Java: they ensure that some function will be executed when the outer function returns, regardless of if an error occurred or which return statement was hit in cases with multiple returns. This is useful f...

Not always we have liberty to read from or write to a local system path. For example if R code streaming map-reduce must need to read and write to file connection. There can be other scenarios as well where one is going beyond local system and with advent of cloud and big data, this is becoming incr...

std::function can cause significant overhead. Because std::function has [value semantics][1], it must copy or move the given callable into itself. But since it can take callables of an arbitrary type, it will frequently have to allocate memory dynamically to do this. Some function implementations h...

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 ...

static void testNumericPromotion() { char char1 = 1, char2 = 2; short short1 = 1, short2 = 2; int int1 = 1, int2 = 2; float float1 = 1.0f, float2 = 2.0f; // char1 = char1 + char2; // Error: Cannot convert from int to char; // short1 = short1 + short2; // Err...

Basic code completion (the name of any class, method or variable) Windows: Ctrl + Space OS X / macOS: Cmd + Space Smart code completion (filters the list of methods and variables by expected type) Windows: Ctrl + Shift + Space OS X / macOS: Cmd + Shift + Space Overwriting code with a suggestio...

PowerShell remoting must first be enabled on the server to which you wish to remotely connect. Enable-PSRemoting -Force This command does the following: Runs the Set-WSManQuickConfig cmdlet, which performs the following tasks: Starts the WinRM service. Sets the startup type on the WinRM ser...

Using credentials from your local computer: Enter-PSSession 192.168.1.1 Prompting for credentials on the remote computer Enter-PSSession 192.168.1.1 -Credential $(Get-Credential)

A basic AppComponent that depends on a single AppModule to provide application-wide singleton objects. @Singleton @Component(modules = AppModule.class) public interface AppComponent { void inject(App app); Context provideContext(); Gson provideGson(); } A module to use to...

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); ...

java.util.Date to java.sql.Date conversion is usually necessary when a Date object needs to be written in a database. java.sql.Date is a wrapper around millisecond value and is used by JDBC to identify an SQL DATE type In the below example, we use the java.util.Date() constructor, that creates a D...

This code compiles: Integer arg = null; int x = arg; But it will crash at runtime with a java.lang.NullPointerException on the second line. The problem is that a primitive int cannot have a null value. This is a minimalistic example, but in practice it often manifests in more sophisticated f...

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...