Tutorial by Examples: const

Simple check To check if constant is defined use the defined function. Note that this function doesn't care about constant's value, it only cares if the constant exists or not. Even if the value of the constant is null or false the function will still return true. <?php define("GOOD&quo...

Constants are created using the const statement or the define function. The convention is to use UPPERCASE letters for constant names. Define constant using explicit values const PI = 3.14; // float define("EARTH_IS_FLAT", false); // boolean const "UNKNOWN" = null; // null d...

public class Foo { private readonly IBar _iBar; public Foo(IBar iBar) { _iBar = iBar; } public void DoStuff() { _bar.DoSomething(); } } public interface IBar { void DoSomething(); }

A select case construct conditionally executes one block of constructs or statements depending on the value of a scalar expression in a select case statement. This control construct can be considered as a replacement for computed goto. [name:] SELECT CASE (expr) [CASE (case-value [, case-value] .....

Constants can be defined inside classes using a const keyword. class Foo { const BAR_TYPE = "bar"; // reference from inside the class using self:: public function myMethod() { return self::BAR_TYPE; } } // reference from outside the class using <Class...

Say we have an enum DayOfWeek: enum DayOfWeek { SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY; } An enum is compiled with a built-in static valueOf() method which can be used to lookup a constant by its name: String dayName = DayOfWeek.SUNDAY.name(); assert dayName.equal...

EXTENDED_ARG = 145 # All opcodes greater than this have 2 operands HAVE_ARGUMENT = 90 # All opcodes greater than this have at least 1 operands cmp_op = ('<', '<=', '==', '!=', '>', '>=', 'in', 'not in', 'is', 'is ... # A list of comparator id's. The indecies are used as opera...

The Number constructor has some built in constants that can be useful Number.MAX_VALUE; // 1.7976931348623157e+308 Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER; // 9007199254740991 Number.MIN_VALUE; // 5e-324 Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER; // -9007199254740991 Number.EPSILON; // 0.000...

Current file You can get the name of the current PHP file (with the absolute path) using the __FILE__ magic constant. This is most often used as a logging/debugging technique. echo "We are in the file:" , __FILE__ , "\n"; Current directory To get the absolute path to the di...

We can use Predefined Constants for Date format in date() instead of the conventional date format strings since PHP 5.1.0. Predefined Date Format Constants Available DATE_ATOM - Atom (2016-07-22T14:50:01+00:00) DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies (Friday, 22-Jul-16 14:50:01 UTC) DATE_RSS - RSS (Fri, 22...

Program units often make use of literal constants. These cover the obvious cases like print *, "Hello", 1, 1.0 Except in one case, each literal constant is a scalar which has type, type parameters and value given by the syntax. Integer literal constants are of the form 1 -1 -1_1 ...

A common pitfall of child classes is that, if your parent and child both contain a constructor(__construct()) method, only the child class constructor will run. There may be occasions where you need to run the parent __construct() method from it's child. If you need to do that, then you will need to...

Constructor overloading is not available in As3. In order to provide a different way to retrieve an instance of a class, a public static method can be provided to serve as an alternative "constructor". An example for that is flash.geom.Point, which represents a 2D point object. The coor...

The only way to catch exception in initializer list: struct A : public B { A() try : B(), foo(1), bar(2) { // constructor body } catch (...) { // exceptions from the initializer list and constructor are caught here // if no exception is thrown h...

This is an example of how to use the generic type TFood inside Eat method on the class Animal public interface IFood { void EatenBy(Animal animal); } public class Grass: IFood { public void EatenBy(Animal animal) { Console.WriteLine("Grass was eaten by: {0}",...

A rank-1 array value can be created using an array constructor, with the syntax (/ ... /) [ ... ] The form [...] was introduced in Fortran 2003 and is generally regarded as clearer to read, especially in complex expressions. This form is used exclusively in this example. The values featuring ...

Say we have this code snippet. class A { public: int a; int b; A(const A &other) { this->a = other.a; this->b = other.b; } }; To create a copy constructor, that is, to make a function that copies an object and creates a new one, we norma...

Simple constraint: interface IRunnable { run(): void; } interface IRunner<T extends IRunnable> { runSafe(runnable: T): void; } More complex constraint: interface IRunnble<U> { run(): U; } interface IRunner<T extends IRunnable<U>, U> { runSafe...

In this example we will calculate the squared deviance for each column in a data frame, in this case the mtcars. Option A: integer index squared_deviance <- vector("list", length(mtcars)) for (i in seq_along(mtcars)){ squared_deviance[[i]] <- (mtcars[[i]] - mean(mtcars[[i]]))^2...

To illustrate the effect of good for loop construction, we will calculate the mean of each column in four different ways: Using a poorly optimized for loop Using a well optimized for for loop Using an *apply family of functions Using the colMeans function Each of these options will be shown...