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Why the ugly keywords in C11?
I am currently reading a draft of the C11 specification. The new introduced keywords: _Bool, _Alignof, _Atomic all feel like custom extensions, instead of standard reserved keywords like struct, ...
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Why the name 'continue' [closed]
The 'continue' keyword in Java (and probably in many other programming languages) is used to skip further execution of the current iteration.
Why was the name 'continue' chosen? Why not something ...
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Non-english programming languages [closed]
Is there a definitive listing of programming languages which don't use English for the keywords and statements in the language code?
For example, I know that Russians back in the Cold War were ...
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Use of keyword “Using” in C# interface
When I'm using C# to write some code and I define an interface using Visual Studio 2010, it always includes a number of "using" statements (as shown in the example)
using System;
using ...
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Understanding clojure keywords
I'm taking my first steps with Clojure. Otherwise, I'm somewhat competent with JavaScript, Python, Java, and a little C.
I was reading this artical that describes destructuring vectors and maps. E.g.
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Case insensitive keywords in a language
We're trying to write a custom scripting language. There has been a suggestion to make the language forgiving by providing case insensitive keywords.
I personally do not like the idea, but there are ...
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What are some practical uses of the “new” modifier in C# with respect to hiding?
A co-worker and I were looking at the behavior of the new keyword in C# as it applies to the concept of hiding. From the documentation:
Use the new modifier to explicitly hide a member inherited ...
