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Using `any` to indicate a wildcard value
Instead of using a sentinel value like any or None with special-cased logic, you could create a type the implements the desired "everything goes" behavior using the same interface as the ...
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Common practice where to place "is" word while naming predicate function: at the beginning or in the middle?
This inconsistency is a combination of things:
Language designers are not required to adopt naming conventions from other languages when inventing a new programming language.
Naming conventions have ...
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When to prefer print over logging?
Printing and logging serve different purposes.
The purpose of logging tools is that they provide you with information after the fact about what a piece of software was doing. These tools are designed ...
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Using `any` to indicate a wildcard value
I made the types Anything and Something for this purpose. Anything compares True with any other value, while Something compares True on anything that is not None:
>>> Anything == 42
True
>&...
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Using `any` to indicate a wildcard value
Here's another solution similar to Brian61354270's answer that's a little more generic. You might want to use this if you have to support other rules that are more complicated. As an example, I ...
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Common practice where to place "is" word while naming predicate function: at the beginning or in the middle?
One main reason might be that the "noun" in your hypothetical examples is a variable or an expression on which the predicate is applied, so it would be redundant to specify it in the name of ...
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When to prefer print over logging?
Each has it's own capabilities.
Print lets you write:
to a hard coded file path
to stdout
to stderr
only what you say to write
Logging lets you write
to a user configured file path
to a user ...
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Common practice where to place "is" word while naming predicate function: at the beginning or in the middle?
"is" or in some cases "has" should be the first part of the method name. For example
bool nothingThere = box.isEmpty()
bool nobodyThere = !car.hasPassengers();
Without the is I ...
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Declaring code style settings in a Java project
OP did not describe the proposed changes
to default format (TAB == three SPACE, maybe?).
More importantly, it did not describe the
positive benefit which would outweigh
the various frictional ...
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