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The (?(DEFINE)...) construct lets you define subpatterns you may reference later through recursion. When encountered in the pattern it will not be matched against. This group should contain named subpattern definitions, which will be accessible only through recursion. You can define grammars this w...

Subpatterns can be referenced with their relative group number: (?-1) will recurse into the previous group (?+1) will recurse into the next group Also usable with the \g<N> syntax.

Generators can be used to represent infinite sequences: def integers_starting_from(n): while True: yield n n += 1 natural_numbers = integers_starting_from(1) Infinite sequence of numbers as above can also be generated with the help of itertools.count. The above code cou...

As you may (or not) know, you can reference a capture group with: $1 1 being the group number. In the same way, you can reference a named capture group with: ${name} \{name} g\{name} Let's take the preceding example and replace the matches with The hero of the story is a ${subject}. T...

A reference cycle (or retain cycle) is so named because it indicates a cycle in the object graph: Each arrow indicates one object retaining another (a strong reference). Unless the cycle is broken, the memory for these objects will never be freed. A retain cycle is created when two instances of ...

In functions taking callable as an argument, you can also put a string with PHP built-in function. It's common to use trim as array_map parameter to remove leading and trailing whitespace from all strings in the array. $arr = [' one ', 'two ', ' three']; var_dump(array_map('trim', $arr)); ...

BuildConfigField Gradle allows buildConfigField lines to define constants. These constants will be accessible at runtime as static fields of the BuildConfig class. This can be used to create flavors by defining all fields within the defaultConfig block, then overriding them for individual build fla...

Assuming the following Person class: public class Person { public string Name { get; set; } public int Age { get; set; } } The following lambda: p => p.Age > 18 Can be passed as an argument to both methods: public void AsFunc(Func<Person, bool> func) public void AsE...

You can combine object initializers with constructors to initialize types if necessary. Take for example a class defined as such: public class Book { public string Title { get; set; } public string Author { get; set; } public Book(int id) { //do things } // the...

length counts the occurences of elements a in a foldable structure t a. ghci> length [7, 2, 9] -- t ~ [] 3 ghci> length (Right 'a') -- t ~ Either e 1 -- 'Either e a' may contain zero or one 'a' ghci> length (Left "foo") -- t ~ Either String 0 ghci> length (3, True) ...

Any fold can be run in the opposite direction with the help of the Dual monoid, which flips an existing monoid so that aggregation goes backwards. newtype Dual a = Dual { getDual :: a } instance Monoid m => Monoid (Dual m) where mempty = Dual mempty (Dual x) `mappend` (Dual y) = Dua...

To instantiate Foldable you need to provide a definition for at least foldMap or foldr. data Tree a = Leaf | Node (Tree a) a (Tree a) instance Foldable Tree where foldMap f Leaf = mempty foldMap f (Node l x r) = foldMap f l `mappend` f x `mappend` foldMap f r fo...

import Data.Traversable as Traversable data MyType a = -- ... instance Traversable MyType where traverse = -- ... Every Traversable structure can be made a Foldable Functor using the fmapDefault and foldMapDefault functions found in Data.Traversable. instance Functor MyType where ...

Implementations of traverse usually look like an implementation of fmap lifted into an Applicative context. data Tree a = Leaf | Node (Tree a) a (Tree a) instance Traversable Tree where traverse f Leaf = pure Leaf traverse f (Node l x r) = Node <$> traverse f l <*...

A compiler symbol is a keyword that is defined at compile-time that can be checked for to conditionally execute specific sections of code. There are three ways to define a compiler symbol. They can be defined via code: #define MYSYMBOL They can be defined in Visual Studio, under Project Propert...

Sometimes you may have a form and want to submit it using ajax. Suppose you have this simple form - <form id="ajax_form" action="form_action.php"> <label for="name">Name :</label> <input name="name" id="name" type="t...

Array types inherit their equals() (and hashCode()) implementations from java.lang.Object, so equals() will only return true when comparing against the exact same array object. To compare arrays for equality based on their values, use java.util.Arrays.equals, which is overloaded for all array types...

You can use a colon and the standard numeric format syntax to control how numbers are formatted. var decimalValue = 120.5; var asCurrency = $"It costs {decimalValue:C}"; // String value is "It costs $120.50" (depending on your local currency settings) var withThreeDecimal...

In this example, we illustrate string manipulation in MATLAB MEX. We will create a MEX-function that accepts a string as input from MATLAB, copy the data into C-string, modify it and convert it back to mxArray returned to the MATLAB side. The main objective of this example is to show how strings ca...

The following syntax indicate that a class adopts a protocol, using angle brackets. @interface NewClass : NSObject <NewProtocol> ... @end This means that any instance of NewClass will respond to methods declared in its interface but also it will provide an implementation for all the requ...