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What is the expected performance of While loops using `array.pop()` assignment vs other methods
Recently I was asked to refactor some code that leverages JavaScript's array.reduce() method because other developers felt the code hard to read. While doing this I decided to play around with some ...
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Should execution continue if array is empty?
Just a general programming best practices question.
If I have a function like that takes in an array of items and the function then calls a series of other functions which filter and act on the items ...
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Is "Array[1]" the first element or second element in the array?
Following the reading of the question Why are zero-based arrays the norm?, I wonder about the terms to use for referring to specific array elements, in the perspective of linguistic reading of ...
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Is it good practice to use array.pop() assignment in a while loop condition?
Just saw a code snippet that used an array pop assignment in the while condition; was wondering if this is acceptable/good practice?
var arr = [0,1,2,3,4,5];
var current;
while (current = arr.pop())
{...
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Is it considered a bad practice to oversize an array so that negative indices behave well?
I have been practicing implementing some classic dynamic programming algorithms and was wondering if my implementation of the longest common subsequence search has a significant code smell.
In python,...
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@SuppressWarnings in generic array declaration
While doing a coding test, I ran into a problem where I need to initialize an array of generic type in Java. While trying to figure out how to do that, I looked at this Stack Overflow question and it ...
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Is it considered bad practice to access a returned array by a key straight away?
I couldn't think of a good way to word the title, sorry. But what I mean is, is it considered bad practice to do:
print get_array()[2]
over:
output=get_array()
print output[2]
(where get_array() is ...
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Is initializing a char[] with a string literal bad practice?
I was reading a thread titled "strlen vs sizeof" on CodeGuru, and one of the replies states that "it's anyways [sic] bad practice to initialie [sic] a char array with a string literal."
Is this true,...
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