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Conditional construct for a kleenean data type
I was thinking of an hypothetical programming language with a kleenean data type which would implement Kleene's three-valued logic. To sum up, it's an extension of the boolean data type with the three ...
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Why was GOTO included in PHP 5? [closed]
I discovered some time ago that the GOTO control keyword was introduced in PHP 5.3.0.
http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php
Why did it happen?
What are the language design goals ...
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design for interruptable operations
I couldn't find a better topic but here it is;
1) When user clicks a button, code starts t work,
2) When another button is clicked, it would stop doing whatever it does and start to run the second ...
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Why does Clang/LLVM warn me about using default in a switch statement where all enumerated cases are covered?
Consider the following enum and switch statement:
typedef enum {
MaskValueUno,
MaskValueDos
} testingMask;
void myFunction(testingMask theMask) {
switch theMask {
case ...
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Is it dangerous for me to give some of my Model classes Control-like methods?
In my personal project I have tried to stick to MVC, but I've also been made aware that sticking to MVC too tightly can be a bad thing as it makes writing awkward and forces the flow of the program in ...
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Is it bad practice for a module to contain more information than it needs?
I just wanted to ask for your opinion on a situation that occurs sometimes and which I don't know what would be the most elegant way to solve it.
Here it goes:
We have module A which reads an entry ...
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Do we still have a case against the goto statement? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it ever worthwhile using goto?
In a recent article, Andrew Koenig writes:
When asked why goto statements are harmful, most programmers will say something like ...
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Where did the notion of “one return only” come from?
I often talk to Java programmers who say "Don't put multiple return statements in the same method." When I ask them to tell me the reasons why, all I get is "The coding standard says so." or "It's ...
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Why are brackets required for try-catch?
In various languages (Java at least, think also C#?) you can do things like
if( condition )
singleStatement;
while( condition )
singleStatement;
for( var; condition; increment )
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Loops in real-life problems
I'm learning C as my first programming language. I'm confused on how do loops work in real-life. In programming every function has a reason.
example - if/else statements are used if we have ...
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Are `break` and `continue` bad programming practices?
My boss keeps mentioning nonchalantly that bad programmers use break and continue in loops.
I use them all the time because they make sense; let me show you the inspiration:
function verify(object) ...
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Which useful alternative control structures do you know? [closed]
Similar question was closed on SO.
Sometimes when we're programming, we find that some particular control structure would be very useful to us, but is not directly available in our programming ...
