If they will be based on anonymous inner classes, then yes, they'll capture the variables from the surrounding scope. Those variables however will be 'final', which means that you can't re-assign them, even if their…
Two things: this is one of the trolliest posts I have seen on HN on a while, save for my own (now deleted) counter-troll. The fact that it keeps getting upvoted is astounding. Seriously, associating a certain technique…
So that's the justification? That the GIMP expects WM settings that were only the default on TWM and the like over 15 years ago? Well, I must say that I haven't seen any other application of its size take the "NO…
PHP is academic?! What definition of academic could you possibly be using?! The blasted thing doesn't even respect basic things like transitivity in its most commonly used equality operator, its author says that he…
Well, SICP was a printed book before being put on the web (as it is quite a few years older than it), and the version you see on the webpage is just a rendition of it in HTML. Still, I didn't know until today that you…
> And if you can't read code well, go practice some more. Actually, let's not. To paraphrase a minor celebrity of programming, life is too long to be good at reading every variation of boilerplate. Java is…
It is a good question to ask though, as there are societal pressures against men going into any profession related to children (e.g. the pedophile scare). But asking it _here_ is just cheap whataboutery to silence the…
If they will be based on anonymous inner classes, then yes, they'll capture the variables from the surrounding scope. Those variables however will be 'final', which means that you can't re-assign them, even if their…
Two things: this is one of the trolliest posts I have seen on HN on a while, save for my own (now deleted) counter-troll. The fact that it keeps getting upvoted is astounding. Seriously, associating a certain technique…
So that's the justification? That the GIMP expects WM settings that were only the default on TWM and the like over 15 years ago? Well, I must say that I haven't seen any other application of its size take the "NO…
PHP is academic?! What definition of academic could you possibly be using?! The blasted thing doesn't even respect basic things like transitivity in its most commonly used equality operator, its author says that he…
Well, SICP was a printed book before being put on the web (as it is quite a few years older than it), and the version you see on the webpage is just a rendition of it in HTML. Still, I didn't know until today that you…
> And if you can't read code well, go practice some more. Actually, let's not. To paraphrase a minor celebrity of programming, life is too long to be good at reading every variation of boilerplate. Java is…
It is a good question to ask though, as there are societal pressures against men going into any profession related to children (e.g. the pedophile scare). But asking it _here_ is just cheap whataboutery to silence the…