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This tag relates to any of various nested entities or operations in programming.

This tag relates to any of various nested entities in programming, including but not limited to:

  • Nested data structures
  • Nested queries
  • Nested calls to a procedure, subroutine, method or operation

For example, nesting queries in SQL means to create a subquery. Its result is used in the query itself and provides a query order and subsets.

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What happens when nesting elements with position: fixed inside each other?

Okay, I've noticed something, but couldn't find it in the CSS spec. Styling an element with position: fixed will position it absolutely, with respect to the browser viewport. What happens if you place a fixed-position element inside another? Example…
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Ruby: merge nested hash

I would like to merge a nested hash. a = {:book=> [{:title=>"Hamlet", :author=>"William Shakespeare" }]} b = {:book=> [{:title=>"Pride and Prejudice", :author=>"Jane Austen" }]} I would like the merge to…
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Nested functions in Java

Are there any extensions for the Java programming language that make it possible to create nested functions? There are many situations where I need to create methods that are only used once in the context of another method or for-loop. I've been…
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Return value from nested function in Javascript

I have a function that is set up as follows function mainFunction() { function subFunction() { var str = "foo"; return str; } } var test = mainFunction(); alert(test); To my logic, that alert should return…
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How to sort OrderedDict of OrderedDict?

I'm trying to sort OrderedDict in OrderedDict by 'depth' key. Is there any solution to sort that Dictionary ? OrderedDict([ (2, OrderedDict([ ('depth', 0), ('height', 51), ('width', 51), ('id', 100) ])), (1,…
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How to set object property (of object property of..) given its string name in JavaScript?

Suppose we are only given var obj = {}; var propName = "foo.bar.foobar"; How can we set the property obj.foo.bar.foobar to a certain value (say "hello world")? So I want to achieve this, while we only have the property name in a…
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ldap nested group membership

Is it possible to create an LDAP query which will return (or check for) users in a nested group? e.g. UserA is a member of GroupA, and GroupA is a member of GroupB. I want a query on GroupB to return that UserA is a member. LDAP only. The server is…
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Django nested transactions - “with transaction.atomic()”

I would like to know if I have something like this: def functionA(): with transaction.atomic(): #save something functionB() def functionB(): with transaction.atomic(): #save another thing Someone knows what will…
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How do nested functions work in Python?

def maker(n): def action(x): return x ** n return action f = maker(2) print(f) print(f(3)) print(f(4)) g = maker(3) print(g(3)) print(f(3)) # still remembers 2 Why does the nested function remember the first value 2 even though…
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understanding nested generic classes in C# with quiz

While talking with a colleague about C#, he showed me some C# code which I had to predict the output of. This looked simple in the first place, but it wasn't. I can not really understand why C# acts this way. The code: public class A { …
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Angular ui-router - how to access parameters in nested, named view, passed from the parent template?

Hi I am trying to access a parameter in the controller "ViewWorklogCrtl" while using ui-router and running into difficulty. Basically, my parent template contains: a(ui-sref="instance-ticket.worklog({id:{{ticket.testnum}}})") show and then further…
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Best way to create nested HTML elements with jQuery

If I need to create a couple of nested DOM elements, I know one way to do it, is to write them as long string and then place them in the document using a suitable jQuery function. Something like: elem.html( '
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How to search nested objects with Elasticsearch

OK, I've not been able to figure this out thus far. Hoping someone can offer some insight. Given the documents below, how would I search for all documents with a video that has "test" in the video title? I'm using the HTTP API. (Basically, how do…
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How to destack nested tuples in Python?

How to convert the following tuple: from: (('aa', 'bb', 'cc'), 'dd') to: ('aa', 'bb', 'cc', 'dd')
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Nesting

won't work while nesting

I usually won't nest

like this:

The following:

one

two

and I will nest like that using
instead. But today I used

but it seems that both Emacs and Google Chrome both would consider the outer

closed as…

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