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To obtain a reference to a KClass object representing some class use double colons: val c1 = String::class val c2 = MyClass::class

Functions are first-class citizens in Kotlin. You can obtain a reference on it using double colons and then pass it to another function: fun isPositive(x: Int) = x > 0 val numbers = listOf(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) println(numbers.filter(::isPositive)) // [1, 2]

To obtain a Java's Class object from Kotlin's KClass use the .java extension property: val stringKClass: KClass<String> = String::class val c1: Class<String> = stringKClass.java val c2: Class<MyClass> = MyClass::class.java The latter example will be optimized by the compile...

The conventional connect syntax that uses SIGNAL and SLOT macros works entirely at runtime, which has two drawbacks: it has some runtime overhead (resulting also in binary size overhead), and there's no compile-time correctness checking. The new syntax addresses both issues. Before checking the synt...

Given that the 8086/8088 was used in the IBM PC, and the Operating System on that was most often from Microsoft, Microsoft's assembler MASM was the de facto standard for many years. It followed Intel's syntax closely, but permitted some convenient but "loose" syntax that (in hindsight) onl...

Intel wrote the specification of the 8086 assembly language, a derivative of the earlier 8080, 8008 and 4004 processors. As such, the assembler they wrote followed their own syntax precisely. However, this assembler wasn't used very widely. Intel defined their opcodes to have either zero, one or tw...

Although the 8086 was most used in IBM PCs along with Microsoft, there were a number of other computers and Operating Systems that used it too: most notably Unix. That was a product of AT&T, and it already had Unix running on a number of other architectures. Those architectures used more convent...

Borland started out with a Pascal compiler that they called "Turbo Pascal". This was followed by compilers for other languages: C/C++, Prolog and Fortran. They also produced an assembler called "Turbo Assembler", which, following Microsoft's naming convention, they called "T...

When the GNU project needed an assembler for the x86 family, they went with the AT&T version (and its syntax) that was associated with Unix rather than the Intel/Microsoft version.

NASM is by far the most ported assembler for the x86 architecture - it's available for practically every Operating System based on the x86 (even being included with MacOS), and is available as a cross-platform assembler on other platforms. This assembler uses Intel syntax, but it is different from ...

YASM is a complete rewrite of NASM, but is compatible with both Intel and AT&T syntaxes.

Suppose that you have a pointer to an object of a polymorphic class: Shape *ps; // see example on defining a polymorphic class ps = get_a_new_random_shape(); // if you don't have such a function yet, you // could just write ps = new Square...

Background pages are implicit pages which contain background scripts. A background script is a single long-running script to manage some task or state. It exists for the lifetime of your extension, and only one instance of it at a time is active. You can declare it like this in your manifest.json: ...

Loop control statements are used to change the flow of execution from its normal sequence. When execution leaves a scope, all automatic objects that were created in that scope are destroyed. The break and continue are loop control statements. The break statement terminates a loop without any furthe...

Save with default parameters: df.to_csv(file_name) Write specific columns: df.to_csv(file_name, columns =['col']) Difault delimiter is ',' - to change it: df.to_csv(file_name,sep="|") Write without the header: df.to_csv(file_name, header=False) Write with a given head...

Got to Tools | Options | Source Control | Visual Studio Team Foundation Server click on the Configure User Tools: You can add separate overrides for 'Compare' and 'Merge' operations. Click on Add and select the operation you want to override. You'd need to type the path to the tool you use, and ...

An extensible derived type may be abstract type, abstract :: base_type end type Such a derived type may never be instantiated, such as by type(base_type) t1 allocate(type(base_type) :: t2) but a polymorphic object may have this as its declared type class(base_type), allocatable :: t1 o...

ansible-playbook -i path/to/static-inventory-file -l myhost myplaybook.yml

ansible-playbook -i path/to/dynamic-inventory-script.py -l myhost myplaybook.yml See dynamic inventory for more details.

In order to get a view to slowly fade in or out of view, use an ObjectAnimator. As seen in the code below, set a duration using .setDuration(millis) where the millis parameter is the duration (in milliseconds) of the animation. In the below code, the views will fade in / out over 500 milliseconds, o...