Casting in .NET via object mutation
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!
Validating email addresses with .NET regex
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.
Unicode as she is broke
Do you think your string-handling code is robust? Are there any problems with the following snippets?
n-pivot quicksort
2-pivot quicksort This posting on the Java core library mailing list proposes to replace the current quicksort with a new, 2-pivot quicksort. Ordinary quicksort in Haskell looks something like this: quicksort [] = [] quicksort (pivot:rest) = quicksort [x| x ← rest, x ≤ pivot] ++ [pivot] ++ quicksort [x| x ← rest, x > [...]
