Tutorial by Examples: constants

Python's string module provides constants for string related operations. To use them, import the string module: >>> import string string.ascii_letters: Concatenation of ascii_lowercase and ascii_uppercase: >>> string.ascii_letters 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ...

R has a number of build in constants. The following constants are available: LETTERS: the 26 upper-case letters of the Roman alphabet letters: the 26 lower-case letters of the Roman alphabet month.abb: the three-letter abbreviations for the English month names month.name: the English names fo...

You can use gradle to have BuildConfig constants and res values on a per flavor basis. Just add the value to the flavor you want to support. android { defaultConfig { resValue "string", "app_name", "Full App" buildConfigField "boolean",...

VBA defines a number of string constants for special characters like: vbCr : Carriage-Return 'Same as "\r" in C style languages. vbLf : Line-Feed 'Same as "\n" in C style languages. vbCrLf : Carriage-Return & Line-Feed (a new-line in Windows) vbTab: Tab Character vbNul...

Giving this enumeration as Example: enum Compass { NORTH(0), EAST(90), SOUTH(180), WEST(270); private int degree; Compass(int deg){ degree = deg; } public int getDegree(){ return degree; } } In Java an enum class is like any other c...

let mySwitch: UISwitch = { view.addSubview($0) $0.addTarget(self, action: "action", forControlEvents: .TouchUpInside) return $0 }(UISwitch())

Headers may be used to declare globally used read-only resources, like string tables for example. Declare those in a separate header which gets included by any file ("Translation Unit") which wants to make use of them. It's handy to use the same header to declare a related enumeration to ...

Constants in Go may be typed or untyped. For instance, given the following string literal: "bar" one might say that the type of the literal is string, however, this is not semantically correct. Instead, literals are Untyped string constants. It is a string (more correctly, its default ...

In an enum it is possible to define a specific behavior for a particular constant of the enum which overrides the default behavior of the enum, this technique is known as constant specific body. Suppose three piano students - John, Ben and Luke - are defined in an enum named PianoClass, as follows:...

A typeglob *foo holds references to the contents of global variables with that name: $foo, @foo, $foo, &foo, etc. You can access it like an hash and assign to manipulate the symbol tables directly (evil!). use v5.10; # necessary for say our $foo = "foo"; our $bar; say ref *foo{SCAL...

def say_hi MESSAGE = "Hello" puts MESSAGE end The above code results in an error: SyntaxError: (irb):2: dynamic constant assignment.

class Message DEFAULT_MESSAGE = "Hello, world" def speak(message = nil) if message puts message else puts DEFAULT_MESSAGE end end end The constant DEFAULT_MESSAGE can be changed with the following code: Message::DEFAULT_MESSAGE = "Hullo, wo...

In C, character constants and string literals are different things. A character surrounded by single quotes like 'a' is a character constant. A character constant is an integer whose value is the character code that stands for the character. How to interpret character constants with multiple charac...

To use the constant simply use its name: if (EARTH_IS_FLAT) { print "Earth is flat"; } print APP_ENV_UPPERCASE; or if you don't know the name of the constant in advance, use the constant function: // this code is equivalent to the above code $const1 = "EARTH_IS_FLAT&quo...

Pi The following returns the value of PI formatted to 6 decimal places. The actual value is good to DOUBLE; SELECT PI(); -> 3.141593

defmodule MyModule do @my_favorite_number 13 @use_snake_case "This is a string (use double-quotes)" end These are only accessible from within this module.

Declare: defmodule MyApp.ViaFunctions.Constants do def app_version, do: "0.0.1" def app_author, do: "Felix Orr" def app_info, do: [app_version, app_author] def bar, do: "barrific constant in function" end Consume with require: defmodule MyApp.ViaFuncti...

Declare: defmodule MyApp.ViaMacros.Constants do @moduledoc """ Apply with `use MyApp.ViaMacros.Constants, :app` or `import MyApp.ViaMacros.Constants, :app`. Each constant is private to avoid ambiguity when importing multiple modules that each have their own copies of th...

// Must enable the feature to use associated constants #![feature(associated_consts)] use std::mem; // Associated constants can be used to add constant attributes to types trait Foo { const ID: i32; } // All implementations of Foo must define associated constants // unless a defaul...

Using the IntDef#flag() attribute set to true, multiple constants can be combined. Using the same example in this topic: public abstract class Car { //Define the list of accepted constants @IntDef(flag=true, value={MICROCAR, CONVERTIBLE, SUPERCAR, MINIVAN, SUV}) //Tell the compi...