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Functions can take inputs in form of variables that can be used and assigned inside their own scope. The following function takes two numeric values and returns their sum: function addition (argument1, argument2){ return argument1 + argument2; } console.log(addition(2, 3)); // -> 5 ...

x = [5, 5, 1, 3] y = [5, 2, 4, 3] Union (|) contains elements from both arrays, with duplicates removed: x | y => [5, 1, 3, 2, 4] Intersection (&) contains elements which are present both in first and second array: x & y => [5, 3] Difference (-) contains elements which ar...

The following examples show two main methods for installing Erlang/OTP on Ubuntu. Method 1 - Pre-built Binary Package Simply run this command and it will download and install the latest stable Erlang release from Erlang Solutions. $ sudo apt-get install erlang Method 2 - Build and Install from...

Option 1: Leiningen Requires JDK 6 or newer. The easiest way to get started with Clojure is to download and install Leiningen, the de facto standard tool to manage Clojure projects, then run lein repl to open a REPL. Linux curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/l...

While using scaffolding is a fast and easy if you are new to Rails or you are creating a new application, later it can be useful just to do it on your own ato avoid the need to go through the scaffold-generated code to slim it down (remove unused parts, etc.). Creating a model can be as simple as c...

Errors thrown from promises are handled by the second parameter (reject) passed to then or by the handler passed to catch: throwErrorAsync() .then(null, error => { /* handle error here */ }); // or throwErrorAsync() .catch(error => { /* handle error here */ }); Chaining If you hav...

This example is a quick setup of Angular 2 and how to generate a quick example project. Prerequisites: Node.js v4 or greater. npm v3 or greater or yarn. Open a terminal and run the commands one by one: npm install -g @angular/cli or yarn global add @angular/cli depending on your choi...

The main difference is that double-quoted String literals support string interpolations and the full set of escape sequences. For instance, they can include arbitrary Ruby expressions via interpolation: # Single-quoted strings don't support interpolation puts 'Now is #{Time.now}' # Now is #{Time...

In Python 2, range function returns a list while xrange creates a special xrange object, which is an immutable sequence, which unlike other built-in sequence types, doesn't support slicing and has neither index nor count methods: Python 2.x2.3 print(range(1, 10)) # Out: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...

With any variadic function, the function must know how to interpret the variable arguments list. With the printf() or scanf() functions, the format string tells the function what to expect. The simplest technique is to pass an explicit count of the other arguments (which are normally all the same ...

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It is possible to treat a GoogleMap as an Android view if we make use of the provided MapView class. Its usage is very similar to MapFragment. In your layout use MapView as follows: <com.google.android.gms.maps.MapView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ...

Prefer public class Order { public OrderLine AddOrderLine(OrderLine orderLine) { if (orderLine == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(orderLine)); ... } } Over public class Order { public OrderLine AddOrderLine(OrderLine orderLine) { ...

The function php_sapi_name() and the constant PHP_SAPI both return the type of interface (Server API) that is being used by PHP. They can be used to restrict the execution of a script to the command line, by checking whether the output of the function is equal to cli. if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli')...

This is the Python 2 syntax, note the commas , on the raise and except lines: Python 2.x2.3 try: raise IOError, "input/output error" except IOError, exc: print exc In Python 3, the , syntax is dropped and replaced by parenthesis and the as keyword: try: raise IOErro...

Rails uses sqlite3 as the default database, but you can generate a new rails application with a database of your choice. Just add the -d option followed by the name of the database. $ rails new MyApp -T -d postgresql This is a (non-exhaustive) list of available database options: mysql oracle...

"string".upcase # => "STRING" "STRING".downcase # => "string" "String".swapcase # => "sTRING" "string".capitalize # => "String" These four methods do not modify the original receiver. For exampl...

Special care needs to be taken when there is a possibility that an array become an empty array when it comes to logical operators. It is often expected that if all(A) is true then any(A) must be true and if any(A) is false, all(A) must also be false. That is not the case in MATLAB with empty arrays....

To convert a String to uppercase, use uppercaseString: NSString *myString = @"Emphasize this"; NSLog(@"%@", [myString uppercaseString]; // @"EMPHASIZE THIS" To convert a String to lowercase, use lowercaseString: NSString *myString = @"NORMALIZE this"; N...

The checked out file will overwrite not yet commited changes you did in this file. This command will check out the file file.example (which is located in the directory path/to/) and overwrite any changes you might have made to this file. git checkout some-branch path/to/file some-branch can be ...