BDFL_Xenu

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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
If they will be based on anonymous inner classes, then yes, they'll capture the variables from the surrounding scope. Those variables however will be 'final', which means that you can't re-assign them, even if their values are still liable
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
I see that the proposed lambda expressions can omit type annotations on the parameters. Does that mean that Java 8 will have at least some limited form of type inference?
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
Two things: this is one of the trolliest posts I have seen on HN on a while, save for my own (now deleted) counter-troll. The fact that it keeps getting upvoted is astounding. Seriously, associating a certain technique with uber geeks/neckb
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
So that's the justification? That the GIMP expects WM settings that were only the default on TWM and the like over 15 years ago? Well, I must say that I haven't seen any other application of its size take the "NO WARRANTY" shouting of the G
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
I didn't see the word paper anywhere, what do you mean?
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
PHP is academic?! What definition of academic could you possibly be using?! The blasted thing doesn't even respect basic things like transitivity in its most commonly used equality operator, its author says that he hated programming and did
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
Well, SICP was a printed book before being put on the web (as it is quite a few years older than it), and the version you see on the webpage is just a rendition of it in HTML. Still, I didn't know until today that you could link to individu
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
And conveniently enough for this discussion, this happens to be exercise 1.19 of SICP ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html... ).
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
> Learning to read code is just like learning to read English. You can guess most of the words meaning once you know some of them. Personally, I think being able to read code is the best skill you can have as a programmer. Just as a goo
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
> And if you can't read code well, go practice some more. Actually, let's not. To paraphrase a minor celebrity of programming, life is too long to be good at reading every variation of boilerplate. Java is essentially hostile to small f
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by BDFL_Xenu 15y ago
It is a good question to ask though, as there are societal pressures against men going into any profession related to children (e.g. the pedophile scare). But asking it _here_ is just cheap whataboutery to silence the discussion.