That article is more than 10 years old, and a lot has changed since then. IVMaps have now been superseded by Virtual Stub Dispatch. Virtual stub dispatching (VSD) is the technique of using stubs for virtual method invocations instead of the traditional virtual method table. In the past, interface dispatch required that interfaces had process-unique … Read more
Method A (naked parameters) always has the advantages that it requires the method author to type less, since they don’t have to implement a Parameter Object, it requires the method caller to type less, since they don’t have to instantiate a Parameter Object it performs better, since no Parameter Object has to be constructed and … Read more
Click on the method name, then press Ctrl+Alt+H to bring up the Call Hierarchy view.
It’s a new feature. See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264739.aspx Named parameters are standard in ObjectiveC for instance. It takes some time to get used to them but they are a good thing. Only from looking you can tell what a parameter is meant for.
Same principle as Loki’s answer but shorter. Just keep in mind that shorter doesn’t automatically mean better. dinner = Optional.ofNullable(cage.getChicken()) .orElse(getFreerangeChicken()); Note: This usage of Optional is explicitly discouraged by the architects of the JDK and the designers of the Optional feature. You are allocating a fresh object and immediately throwing it away every time. … Read more
The simplest way is: echo debug_backtrace()[1][‘function’]; As noted in the comments below, this can be further optimized by passing arguments to: omit both the object and args indices limit the number of stack frames returned echo debug_backtrace(!DEBUG_BACKTRACE_PROVIDE_OBJECT|DEBUG_BACKTRACE_IGNORE_ARGS,2)[1][‘function’];