On 22/05/2011, at 11:17 PM, Frank Wales wrote:
> Blimey, are we top-posting or bottom-posting in this discussion? Anyway...
>
> The original question was about whether there were studies on
> the effect of 'magic' features, but we seem to have devolved into
> a show-and-tell of them instead.
>
Blimey, are we top-posting or bottom-posting in this discussion? Anyway...
The original question was about whether there were studies on
the effect of 'magic' features, but we seem to have devolved into
a show-and-tell of them instead.
I wonder whether one person's 'magic' is another person's f
PDP-8 had auto-increment locations down in low memory in similar style.
I suppose the device addressing through memory on lots of machines counts as
magic too,
L.
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On 22 May 2011, at 06:39, "Thomas Green" wrote:
>
> Kevlin Henney wrote:
>> To really demonstrate autoboxing y
Kevlin Henney wrote:
To really demonstrate autoboxing you need to allow the compiler to
convert from int to Integer:
Integer x = 1000;
Integer y = 1000;
However, if you are after interesting counterintuitive corner cases,
change the constant to 100:
Integer x = 100;
Integer y =
Kevlin Henney writes:
>In other words, your corner case has a corner case.
And they let children play with this stuff?
Peter.
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Kevlin Henney wrote:
To really demonstrate autoboxing you need to allow the compiler to
convert from int to Integer:
Integer x = 1000;
Integer y = 1000;
However, if you are after interesting counterintuitive corner cases,
change the constant to 100:
Integer x = 100;
Integer
Best,
Martin
Original Message
Subject: Re: "Magic" features of programming languages
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:31:53 -0400
From: John Daughtry
To: Martin C.Martin
I don't have a reference, but a more general example...
A great well-known example
bjects: false
Best,
Martin
Original Message
Subject: Re: "Magic" features of programming languages
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:31:53 -0400
From: John Daughtry
To: Martin C.Martin
I don't have a reference, but a more general example...
A great well-
Hi all,
When a construct is ambiguous, sometimes language designers will provide
a default which (they hope) does the right thing in the common case. An
example is XPath. When = is called on two sets, the semantics are that
there is at least one pair of elements (one from each set) that comp
