Nomenclature is a term that applies to either a list of names or terms, or to the system of principles, procedures and terms related to naming.
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What does private MyShovel Shovel mean?
I am having great difficulties understanding this construct
public class MyBucket extends bucket {
private double var1;
private MyShovel Shovel; <- this is the problem here
public MyBucket(int volume, MyShovel Shovel) {
Some code…
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Left join with uniqueness and existence constraint
Assume two data sets that are linked by common columns, let's call them "recipient" and "donor". One can combine the data sets using merge (R) or LEFT OUTER JOIN (SQL).
Often, in my applications, there is supposed to be one (and exactly one)…
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What's the left-hand side of a method invocation called?
Given the following line
cat.meow(10, x);
"meow" is the "function" or "method" being called
10 is the "first argument"
x is the "second argument"
What is cat called?
I'm dissatisfied with the answer, cat is called "the object". I want to say I've…
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What do you call functions which get and set?
The jQuery framework has a lot of functions which will either retrieve or mutate values depending on the parameters passed:
$(this).html(); // get the html
$(this).html('blah'); // set the html
Is there a standard name for functions which…
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Is it OK to call all references variables (and the other way around) in Python?
Are all references variables and all variables references in Python?
Obviously there's a difference between a variable and a reference in e.g. C++
but what about Python?
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What exactly is the "git database"?
In discussions about git mentions of the so-called "git database" are not uncommon, but I've never been able to tell (from the context) whether "the git database" refers to the .git directory, or to the .git/objects directory, or to the .git/index…
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Nomenclature: type relationships in OOP
I'm familiar with the practical aspects of OOP. Now I'm writing a technical document and I'm questioning my use of terms.
Take this class hierarchy. Each class has zero, one, or more (multiple inheritance) classes it directly derives from. For B,…
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Name a loader error
I wrote a loader class that has a tries property that indicates how many times to retry loading a url if an error code is returned. For instance with Twitter, the loader would retry loading a method call if a fail whale is returned, since the next…
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Console class init function name
I developed a static Console class that writes any traces, successes, and errors to a log file. It requires a file path String and a LoaderInfo instance to get started. At the moment, the function is named start(path, loaderInfo). I'm not really…
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What is the standard approach to naming variables for a list of things that might change in order/number?
Basically in my program, I have a list of questions. These questions could change, and their order could change on later releases of my program (this is why having numbers in the variable names would be bad).
What is the standard approach to naming…
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What do you call a bug that occurs once and hardly occurs again or you are not able to reproduce it?
Some "mysterious" bugs occur once, and then they either never occur or occur after months or years. You are not able to reproduce them because you don't know why they happen. Is there a technical name for such bugs?
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How do i call 'f.prototype' correctly?
Given a javascript function
var f = function();
as far as i understand, i would call Object.getProtoypeOf(f) "f's prototype".
What is the correct term for f.prototype?
"The Prototype objects constructed with f as constructor will get" sounds a…
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Using spl_autoload_register to handle multiple classes inside a single file
With spl_autoload_register, it's possible to load classes automatically. Let's take a simple example using two files:
index.php
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WPF Window ornament nomenclature
Winforms can switch the ControlBox, Maximize and Minimize buttons on and off. I can't seem to find the equivalent properties to control the window ornaments in WPF. What's the correct nomenclature so I can look up this stuff in msdn?
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How is this type of login called
Is there a common name for the type of login where you don't have a username and a password?
Example: website that sends a unique link and password to your e-mail, so that only you can access some information. However, you don't ever need to…
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