This question was recently asked on StackOverflow: I know this might seem like an absolutely silly question to ask, yet I am too curious not to ask… Why did “i” and “j” become THE variables to use as counters in most control structures? The question has generated many answers, from scholarly to spurious — but [...]
In this post, we will see how to make the following code fail: object it = new SomeStruct { Item = 1 }; Floatsy(it); Console.WriteLine(((SomeStruct)it).Item); At runtime, it will throw an InvalidCastException!
I did validation in Haskell a while back, and since I recently discovered .NET’s “balancing groups” regex feature, it seems like it would be a good time to do it for .NET.
Today, thanks to user Lucero on StackOverflow, I learned about .NET’s “Balancing Groups” Regex feature. Basically, any time you use a named capturing group, it actually pushes the capture onto a named stack. You can then pop this stack by using the same capturing group prefixed with a hyphen, like (?< -stackToPop>). Of course, anyone [...]
