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Questions tagged [structure]

Structure is a fundamental, tangible or intangible notion referring to the recognition, observation, nature, and permanence of patterns and relationships of entities. DO NOT USE this tag for C or C++ struct questions!

A structure can be a:

  • A structure in mathematical logic: in universal algebra and in model theory, a structure consists of a set along with a collection of finitary operations and relations which are defined on it.

  • The structure of a program

For the following topics, use different tags as indicated below:

  • A : a particular way of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently.
  • A (short for "structure") is a keyword in the C and C++ languages, used to indicate a structures record.
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What is so special about Monads?

A monad is a mathematical structure which is heavily used in (pure) functional programming, basically Haskell. However, there are many other mathematical structures available, like for example applicative functors, strong monads, or monoids. Some…
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Component without template

I have a bit of code that makes an api call to a server and returns some JSON. It did exist as a method in my component but as it is getting a bit long I want to extract it to it's own file In vuejs what is the best practice here. should it be a…
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How to make a structure extern and define its typedef

I'm trying to implement tree algorithms in C. I have declared a extern struct in a header file that is completely independent (b_tree_ds.h). Now I plan to import the file in all source files that want to use this struct. So I must declare it using…
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How should I rewrite a very large compound if statement in C#?

In my C# code, I have an if statement that started innocently enough: if((something == -1) && (somethingelse == -1) && (etc == -1)) { // ... } It's growing. I think there must be 20 clauses in it now. How should I be handling this?
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Files structure in MVVM (Android)

using MVVM or MVP should i name packages like model, viewmodel, view and put proper classes and interfaces there or is it just a logical structure that should not be visible in classes structure?
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Best structure for inventory database

I want to create a small database for my inventory but I have some problems on picking a structure. The inventory will be updated daily at the end of the day. The problem I am facing is the following. I have a table for my products, having an id,…
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methods in constructors, bad?

I have a windows form, and I have a class that checks a text file to make sure it has certain aspect. Now I have methods in a constructor and it seems a little weird. Should I just leave the constructor blank, and implement a start() type method and…
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Is there an efficient way to share structure between golang packages?

I have a short program in Go with the following files part of it. Program directory structure: myprogram/ main.go server.go routines.go structs.go These different files contain different function. The structs.go file contains a list…
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Refactoring Ruby on Rails i18n YAML files using dictionaries

This StackOverflow question gave me food for thought on what is a good structure for Rails i18n files, so I thought I'd share another structure for refactoring Rails i18n yml files for your consideration/criticism. Given that I would like to keep…
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What are some efficient ways to combine two structures in MATLAB?

I want to combine two structures with differing fields names. For example, starting with: A.field1 = 1; A.field2 = 'a'; B.field3 = 2; B.field4 = 'b'; I would like to have: C.field1 = 1; C.field2 = 'a'; C.field3 = 2; C.field4 = 'b'; Is there a…
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Filter values from list in R

I want to calculate the mean of a list of named numbers. There are numeric(0) values that I first want to remove. Also, I would like to retrieve which elements of the list contain numeric(0) values. Here is an example how the values could look…
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Printing values of all fields in a C++ structure

Consider a simple structure: struct abc { int a; char b; } I got some value in a variable defined as its structure, and now I want to print the below. *a = [some value] b = [some character]* What is the best way to achieve this…
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How do I dump the struct into the byte array without reflection?

I already found encoding/binary package to deal with it, but it depended on reflect package so it didn't work with uncapitalized(that is, unexported) struct fields. However I spent a week to find that problem out, I still have a question: if struct…
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Casting a byte array to a managed structure

Update: Answers to this question helped me code the open sourced project AlicanC's Modern Warfare 2 Tool on GitHub. You can see how I am reading these packets in MW2Packets.cs and the extensions I've coded to read big endian data in Extensions.cs. I…
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What does this pointer of type structure definition mean (in C)?

In K&R Chapter 6, a declaration is mentioned as follows: struct{ int len; char *str; } *p; I couldn't understand which structure is this pointer p pointing to and if such a pointer definition is even valid because in all other examples…
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