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Questions - coding-style

Is it more "correct" to disable a function with a special value or a second parameter?

Say I have some function that I may or may not want to execute during a particular run of the code, and this function also takes some argument that is passed in as a parameter at runtime. Is there som...
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mmiles19

c++

c

design-patterns

coding-style

Votes: 0

Answers: 2

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Given a predicate p the first option is to conditionally call the function: if(p) Delay(42); This makes the calling code a bit more verbose, but you don't have the overhead of the function call. If ...
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Allan Wind

Java coding style to be more concise

How can I compact these code in Java without creating other objects? myObjectNumberOne.setTitle("title"); myObjectNumberOne.setBody("body"); myObjectNumberOne.setAutostart(true); m...
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Phantom Lord

java

coding-style

Votes: 0

Answers: 3

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Make all the setters return the object itself. For example: MyObject setTitle(String s){ this.title = s; return this; } Here I assume that your class is called MyObject. Once this is done for...
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Jhanzaib Humayun

Finding out what the block element <hb> is used for?

In the book I'm using to study HTML it says and I quote "<h1>,<h2>,<hb>,<p>, and <blockquote>, are all block elements. But what is the block element <hb>? I ca...
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Chris Escobar

html

css

character-encoding

coding-style

inline

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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There is no "block" element in HTML. The book is referring to the default styling applied to the elements by the browser. This article explains the difference between the two types of elemen...
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Zach Jensz

What is the difference between suffixes Service, Manager, System?

I'm curious about the difference between Service, Manager and System. All the time I tried to avoid such suffixes. But after I started working with MVC, I needed to create a separate class so as not t...
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Eugenio Uglov

oop

coding-style

naming

clean-architecture

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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When we write software, we need a way to separate classes. If we put all classes in one folder/project, it would be a complete mess. So almost all programs have to: save state/data somewhere. It can ...
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