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We can omit the argument in the call if that argument is an Optional Argument Every Optional Argument has its own default value It will take default value if we do not supply the value A default value of a Optional Argument must be a Constant expression. Must be a value type such as enum or s...

The ref keyword for callers of methods is now optional when calling into methods supplied by COM interfaces. Given a COM method with the signature void Increment(ref int x); the invocation can now be written as either Increment(0); // no need for "ref" or a place holder variable any m...

To create a function which accepts an undetermined number of arguments, there are two methods depending on your environment. 5 Whenever a function is called, it has an Array-like arguments object in its scope, containing all the arguments passed to the function. Indexing into or iterating over th...

Conditional contexts in Lua (if, elseif, while, until) do not require a boolean. Like many languages, any Lua value can appear in a condition. The rules for evaluation are simple: false and nil count as false. Everything else counts as true. if 1 then print("Numbers work.") ...

K&R void* is a catch all type for pointers to object types. An example of this in use is with the malloc function, which is declared as void* malloc(size_t); The pointer-to-void return type means that it is possible to assign the return value from malloc to a pointer to any other type of ob...

Conditional expressions can be done with ~[ and ~]. The clauses of the expression are separated using ~;. By default, ~[ takes an integer from the argument list, and picks the corresponding clause. The clauses start at zero. (format t "~@{~[First clause~;Second clause~;Third clause~;Fourth cl...

A Set is a Collection that cannot contain duplicate elements. It models the mathematical set abstraction. Set have its implementation in various classes like HashSet, TreeSet, LinkedHashSet. For example: HashSet: Set<T> set = new HashSet<T>(); Here T can be String, Integer or any ...

+ dictionaryWithCapacity: Creates and returns a mutable dictionary, initially giving it enough allocated memory to hold a given number of entries. NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:1]; NSLog(@"%@",dict); - init Initializes a newly allocated mut...

- removeObjectForKey: Removes a given key and its associated value from the dictionary. NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:@{@"key1":@"Easy",@"key2": @"Tutorials"}]; [dict removeObjectForKey:@"key1"]; NSLog...

A declaration introduces an identifier and describes its type, be it a type, object, or function. A declaration is what the compiler needs to accept references to that identifier. These are declarations: extern int bar; extern int g(int, int); double f(int, double); /* extern can be omitted for f...

When writing a copy assignment operator, it is very important that it be able to work in the event of self-assignment. That is, it has to allow this: SomeType t = ...; t = t; Self-assignment usually doesn't happen in such an obvious way. It typically happens via a circuitous route through vario...

A data race or race condition is a problem that can occur when a multithreaded program is not properly synchronized. If two or more threads access the same memory without synchronization, and at least one of the accesses is a 'write' operation, a data race occurs. This leads to platform dependent, p...

(foreach) This class can be thought of logically as a buffer for data to be processed combined with tasks for processing that data, with the “dataflow block” managing both. In its most basic usage, we can instantiate an ActionBlock and “post” data to it; the delegate provided at the ActionBlock’s c...

Dim sites() As String = {"Stack Overflow", "Super User", "Ask Ubuntu", "Hardware Recommendations"} Dim query = From x In sites Where x.StartsWith("S") ' result = "Stack Overflow", "Super User" Query will be enumerable objec...

Java and most other languages store negative integral numbers in a representation called 2's complement notation. For a unique binary representation of a data type using n bits, values are encoded like this: The least significant n-1 bits store a positive integral number x in integral representati...

At this point, you're still building your package, so you'll need to add the package to your application: meteor add myaccount:foo And eventually publish it to Atmosphere: meteor publish myaccount:foo

To scale things, we have to stop using local storage on our server, and start using either a dedicated file storage service or implement a horizontal storage layer. The easiest way to get started with scalable file storage is to use a solution like Filepicker.io, which supports S3, Azure, Rackspace,...

However, if you're really serious about storage, and you want to store millions of images, you're going to need to leverage Mongo's GridFS infrastructure, and create yourself a storage layer. For that, you're going to need the excellent CollectionFS subsystem. Start by adding the necessary packages...

We can also use macros for making code easier to read and write. For example we can implement macros for implementing the foreach construct in C for some data structures like singly- and doubly-linked lists, queues, etc. Here is a small example. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h>...

def arg = [phrase: 'interpolated'] assert "This is $arg.phrase" == 'This is interpolated'