According to the documentation: getFields() Returns an array containing Field objects reflecting all the accessible public fields of the class or interface represented by this Class object. The elements in the array returned are not sorted and are not in any particular order. This method returns an array of length 0 if the class or … Read more
According to this page (the 5.0 online manual), it’s for better performance and user convenience.
childClass::customMethod() has different arguments, or a different access level (public/private/protected) than parentClass::customMethod().
python -mwebbrowser http://example.com works on many platforms
From the RFC 4648: Base encoding of data is used in many situations to store or transfer data in environments that, perhaps for legacy reasons, are restricted to US-ASCII data. So it depends on the purpose of usage of the encoded data if the data should be considered as dangerous. But if you’re just looking … Read more
Both (a) and (b) result in undefined behavior. It’s always undefined behavior to call a member function through a null pointer. If the function is static, it’s technically undefined as well, but there’s some dispute. The first thing to understand is why it’s undefined behavior to dereference a null pointer. In C++03, there’s actually a … Read more
In a character class (square brackets) any character except ^, -, ] or \ is a literal. This website is a brilliant reference and has lots of info on the nuances of different regex flavours. http://www.regular-expressions.info/refcharclass.html
You are reading the sentence incorrectly. A program shall contain a global function called main, which is the designated start of the program. The standard is DEFINING the word “start” for the purposes of the remainder of the standard. It doesn’t say that no code executes before main is called. It says that the start … Read more
Yes ([dcl.constexpr], §7.1.5/2 in the C++11 standard): “constexpr functions and constexpr constructors are implicitly inline (7.1.2).” Note, however, that the inline specifier really has very little (if any) effect upon whether a compiler is likely to expand a function inline or not. It does, however, affect the one definition rule, and from that perspective, the … Read more
I’m the founder of Coderbyte and also the guy who created this gets(stdin) hack. The comments on this post are correct that it is a form of find-and-replace, so let me explain why I did this really quickly. Back in the day when I first created the site (around 2012), it only supported JavaScript. There … Read more