What is the usage of global:: keyword in C#?

Technically, global is not a keyword: it’s a so-called “contextual keyword”. These have special meaning only in a limited program context and can be used as identifiers outside that context. global can and should be used whenever there’s ambiguity or whenever a member is hidden. From here: class TestApp { // Define a new class … Read more

String comparison in awk

Sure it can: pax$ echo ‘hello goodbye’ | gawk ‘{if ($0 == “hello”) {print “HELLO”}}’ HELLO You can also do inequality (ordered) testing as well: pax> printf ‘aaa\naab\naac\naad\n’ | gawk ‘{if ($1 < “aac”){print}}’ aaa aab

Why is this Java code in curly braces ({}) outside of a method?

Borrowed from here – Normally, you would put code to initialize an instance variable in a constructor. There are two alternatives to using a constructor to initialize instance variables: initializer blocks and final methods. Initializer blocks for instance variables look just like static initializer blocks, but without the static keyword: { // whatever code is … Read more

What are all the syntax problems introduced by the usage of angle brackets in C++ templates?

Personally, the most hideous problem I have seen is the invocation of template functions in dependent context: template <typename T> void foo(T t) { t.bar<3>(); } This looks admittedly simple, but in fact is incorrect. The C++ Standard requires the introduction of the template keyword to disambiguate t.bar < 3 vs a method invocation yielding: … Read more

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