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Related to Monads are F# computation expressions (CE). A programmer typically implements a CE to provide an alternative approach to chaining Monads, ie instead of this: let v = m >>= fun x -> n >>= fun y -> return_ (x, y) You can write this: let v = ce { let! x = m ...

Most programming languages, including F#, evaluate computations immediately in accord with a model called Strict Evaluation. However, in Lazy Evaluation, computations are not evaluated until they are needed. F# allows us to use lazy evaluation through both the lazy keyword and sequences. // define ...

F#, like most programming languages, uses Strict Evaluation by default. In Strict Evaluation, computations are executed immediately. In contrast, Lazy Evaluation, defers execution of computations until their results are needed. Moreover, the results of a computation under Lazy Evaluation are cached,...

!! suffixes ignore nullability and returns a non-null version of that type. KotlinNullPointerException will be thrown if the object is a null. val message: String? = null println(message!!) //KotlinNullPointerException thrown, app crashes

Longer portions of text containing special characters can be escaped with a CDATA section. CDATA sections can only appear in element content. <?xml version="1.0"?> <document> This is a CDATA section : <![CDATA[ plenty of special characters like & < > " ; ...

Type abbreviations allow you to create aliases on existing types to give them a more meaningful senses. // Name is an alias for a string type Name = string // PhoneNumber is an alias for a string type PhoneNumber = string Then you can use the alias just as any other type: // Create a recor...

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In real world, connection and server delays could occur, to simulate delays in development environment Meteor._sleepForMs(ms); could be used Meteor.publish('USER_DATA', function() { Meteor._sleepForMs(3000); // Simulate 3 seconds delay return Meteor.users.find({}); });

What's an image sprite? An image sprite is a single asset located within an image sprite sheet. An image sprite sheet is an image file that contains more than one asset that can be extracted from it. For example: The image above is an image sprite sheet, and each one of those stars is a sprite...

Suppose we want to get all product categories with total sales greater than 20. Here is a query without Common Table Expressions: SELECT category.description, sum(product.price) as total_sales FROM sale LEFT JOIN product on sale.product_id = product.id LEFT JOIN category on product.category_id ...

Suppose we want to query the "cheapest products" from the "top categories". Here is an example of query using Common Table Expressions -- all_sales: just a simple SELECT with all the needed JOINS WITH all_sales AS ( SELECT product.price as product_price, category.id a...

R is full of functions, it is after all a functional programming language, but sometimes the precise function you need isn't provided in the Base resources. You could conceivably install a package containing the function, but maybe your requirements are just so specific that no pre-made function fit...

An anonymous function is, as the name implies, not assigned a name. This can be useful when the function is a part of a larger operation, but in itself does not take much place. One frequent use-case for anonymous functions is within the *apply family of Base functions. Calculate the root mean squ...

With a column of one of the string types, named my_date_field with a value such as [the string] 07/25/2016, the following statement demonstrates the use of the STR_TO_DATE function: SELECT STR_TO_DATE(my_date_field, '%m/%d/%Y') FROM my_table; You could use this function as part of WHERE clause a...

Objective c: //this is the dictionary you start with. NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"name1", @"Sam",@"name2", @"Sanju",nil]; //check if the dictionary contains the key you are going to modify. In this example, @&qu...

Windows uses only double quotes to wrap command line parameters. In order to use double quotes in perl one-liner (i.e. to print a string with an interpolated variable), you have to escape them with backslashes: perl -e "my $greeting = 'Hello'; print \"$greeting, world!\n\"" T...

perl -lane'print "$F[0] $F[-1]"' data.txt # prints the first and the last fields of a space delimited record CSV example: perl -F, -lane'print "$F[0] $F[-1]"' data.csv

With XML::Rabbit it is possible to consume XML files easily. You define in a declarative way and with an XPath syntax what you are looking for in the XML and XML::Rabbit will return objects according to the given definition. Definition: package Bookstore; use XML::Rabbit::Root; has_xpath_object_...

It is good practice to test the calling program's __name__ variable before executing your code. import sys def main(): # Your code starts here # Don't forget to provide a return code return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main()) Using this pattern ens...

Adding components one after another results in a UI that's hard to use, because the components all are somewhere. The components are ordered from top to bottom, each component in a separate "row". To remedy this and provide you as developer with a possibility to layout components easily S...