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What is a magic number?
Why should it be avoided?
Are there cases where it's appropriate?
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The Batch Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products (Doc Id: 836362.1) and Technical Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework Based Products (Doc Id: 560367.1) have been updated with updated and new advice for the various versions of the Oracle…
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As most C++ programmers should know, partial template specialization of free functions is disallowed. For example, the following is illegal C++:
template <class T, int N>
T mul(const T& x) { return x * N; }
template <class T>
T mul<T, 0>(const T& x) { return T(0); }
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Hi guys,
I am thinking about implementing a programm with finite state automaton in an OOP language like Java or C++.
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Hello,
I just asked a question that helps about using generics (or polymorphism) to avoid duplication of code. I am really trying to follow the DRY principle.
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Sub OutputDataToExcel()
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