Questions tagged [declarations]
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Is interleaving local variable declarations with assertions and function calls a bad practice?
In my experience, it is customary to place local variable declarations at the beginning of their scope. Several questions in this forum ask whether this needs to be so, and their answers tend to agree ...
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Scheme's define in Common Lisp
In Common Lisp, we have to use the let form to declare a new lexically-scoped variable. This means that the code either looks like that written in C89 (all variables declared on top of scope), or ...
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C# declaration redundancy
When declaring a member
class MyClass {
AnyClass<WithLong<Generic,Declaration>> myProp =
new AnyClass<WithLong<Generic,Declaration>>();
}
is quite redundant.
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Regarding a variable in C, is an assignment always equivalent to a definition of that variable? [closed]
Is there a difference between defining a variable in C and assigning a value to a variable in C?
I know that declaring a variable simply means telling the name and its type like int a.
On the other ...
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How to compute whether it is guaranteed the variable is set?
Assuming declarations are expressions consider such code:
if ((var x = foo()) and (var y = x)) or (var z = bar()) then
println(z);
end
The reference to x is OK, because at this point x has to be ...
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Best way to handle variables used in a for loop? [duplicate]
From previous experience, I had always thought that, if you are going to use variables inside of a for loop, it was much better to declare them outside of the loop vs. inside the loop itself. I ...
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Is it good to define a variable inside a loop? [closed]
My instructor once told me that I should not define a variable inside a loop, but I honestly still do not understand why.
What are the disadvantages of that?
Could any body explain that to me?
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Understanding the concept of "arguments" and "parameters"
In the third last paragraph at page number 26 of the ebook "The C Programming Language" the author(s) say,
"We will generally use parameter for a variable named in the parenthesized list in a ...
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Why is *declaration* of data and functions necessary in C language, when the definition is written at the end of the source code?
Consider the following "C" code:
#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("func:%d",Func_i());
}
Func_i()
{
int i=3;
return i;
}
Func_i() is defined at the end of the source code and no ...
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Why do we have to mention the data type of the variable in C
Usually in C, we have to tell the computer the type of data in variable declaration. E.g. in the following program, I want to print the sum of two floating point numbers X and Y.
#include<stdio.h&...
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Where are C variables declared [duplicate]
I see a lot of code with variables declared right after the function, but when I post something like that people end up mad and say it is better to declare them when they are used.
I assume this all ...
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Declaring variables in Python and PHP
The question is how to cope with absence of variable declaration in Python, PHP, and the like.
In most languages there is a way to let the compiler know whether I introduce a new variable or refer to ...
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Is there a difference between declaring variables outside or inside a loop? [closed]
Is there any difference if I were to write something like this:
int row,col;
for(row = 0; row < data.length; row++){
for(col = 0; col < data[row].length;col++){
//do ...
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Declaring a field name starting with underscore [duplicate]
Before forming a class in Java or other programming languages that support OOP, should I use underscore (_) in each (local or private) field declaration.
More precisely:
private String ...
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What is the possible disadvantage of putting declarations in inner blocks, instead of at beginning of function?
At the place where I work, there are explicit guidelines for placement of declarations of variables. According to that, it is required to put them at the global level and / or at the beginning of ...
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Reason behind multi-line declaration style?
I'm a little curious about the reason behind the Windows header file declaration styles.
When I read them, I see multi-line declarations such as the following:
WINBASEAPI
HANDLE
WINAPI
GetStdHandle(
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