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Inheritance, inner classes, and access 7 46 (10/3/2005 8:52:46 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer First, I apologize in advance for the length of this message. I'm building a model that exports data for display and manipulation through a separate GUI. When the GUI changes one of the model's input... Eric

[OT] My personal PLONK list 32 56 (4/1/2005 9:23:44 PM) comp.lang.c IMHO, the following frequent posters to comp.lang.c are unworthy of anybody's further attention. They are prone to spout nonsense, seldom on-topic, and offensive: Arthur J. O'Dwyer Pascal Bourguignon ... Eric

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[cpp] using expressions inside a #define label 3 69 (10/23/2009 9:24:26 PM) comp.lang.c Is there a way to make this parseable by cpp: #define foo abc #define bar def #define foo##bar baz , so that a file, #include-ing the file containing the above expression will have a #define abcdef baz in it... andrey.vul (160)

Casting volatile and const variables 2 82 (10/26/2009 1:20:10 PM) comp.lang.c Hi, I read somewhere in the web that const and volatile variable shoult not be type casted. Can you please tell me why shouldn't we type cast const and volatile variables? Regards ... ramu.ask (96)

this reference in Java constructors 16 43 (10/28/2009 5:39:39 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer I am confused. My question is how can "this" reference be available in a Java constructor ? After all, the current object ( to which "this" refers to) has not been completely constructed yet, because we are sti... ankur.a.agarwal (83)

Develop Update Server in Java 28 44 (10/28/2009 1:13:41 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Dear all, I am looking for ideas, patterns, practices to develop a client/server architecture that can be used to update clients when a new release is uploaded to the server. Does anyone know any web resourc... count.numbers (123)

Library requirement for mutex destroy 42 73 (10/28/2009 1:27:36 PM) comp.unix.programmer [ Cross-posted to c.p.t and c.u.p ] Hello, I'm using a proprietary library (no source code) which requires the user to provide 4 mutex-related functions (create, delete, lock, unlock). AFAICT, if I were usin... Noob

preprocessor arithmetic 43 52 (10/28/2009 9:45:51 PM) comp.lang.c Is there a way to do this: cat << "EOF" | cpp -Dn=2 - #define d define d foo#(n-1) (n-1) EOF with the output being #define foo1 1 ? ... andrey.vul (160)

Multidimensional array, passing to a function 19 52 (10/29/2009 5:27:42 PM) comp.lang.c Hello, I've a couple of (automatically) created functions that take 2-dimensional array as inputs, like void getMatrix( double M[2][2] ) { M[0][0] = 1; M[0][1] = 0; M[1][0] = 0; M[1][1] = 1; } ... michaelk.bs (11)

Changing the meaning of the array indexing brackets "[ ]" to do bounds checking and then ... 18 62 (11/2/2009 8:21:06 PM) comp.lang.c Changing the meaning of the array indexing brackets "[ ]" to do bounds checking and then using another notation for array indexing without bounds checking, say "[| |]", might help minimize buffer overruns. By ... caseyhHAMMER_TIME (219)

Sorting TimeZone 27 45 (11/3/2009 12:09:42 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer How would you sort timezones? I am trying to sort them according to their offset from UTC. I cannot use a TreeMap because there are many timezones with the same offset, which of course over-writes the previo... Wojtek

Bitwise question #2 8 74 (11/4/2009 11:38:33 AM) comp.lang.c Hi, I'm wondering if I want to check if a bit is not set, the following statements are valid: /* check if bit is not set */ if ( !(MASK & BIT_TO_CHECK) ) { /* do something */ } and /* check if bit is not s... fake6867 (34)