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Should "Set" have a Get method?
Let's have this C# class (it would be almost the same in Java)
public class MyClass {
public string A {get; set;}
public string B {get; set;}
public override bool Equals(object obj) {
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For what reasons Java and C# initialize static data on demand?
I am reading "The Go Programming Language" right now and I have read package initialization chapter which tells (or I read it wrong) that Go uses eagerly initialization.
So in time we saw say C++ ...
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Why is the most common integer number 32 bits, but the most common floating point number 64 bits?
Coming from a Java and C# background, I've learned to use int (32 bits) whenever I need a whole number, and double (64 bits) when dealing with fractional values. Most methods from their respective ...
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Reasons to want false-negatives when comparing strings (or string references)? [duplicate]
Java programmers know that new String("some-text") == new String("some-text") evaluates to false because two different objects/references are being compared [and that String.equals should be used to ...
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Why was C# made with "new" and "virtual+override" keywords unlike Java?
In Java there are no virtual, new, override keywords for method definition. So the working of a method is easy to understand. Cause if DerivedClass extends BaseClass and has a method with same name ...
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Does Java development typically involve more subclassing than C#/.NET?
I've recently started looking at Android development. This has brought me back into the world of Java software development. The last time I worked with Java, I'll admit, I didn't understand OOP nearly ...
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Why do C# and Java use reference equality as the default for '=='?
I've been pondering for a while why Java and C# (and I'm sure other languages) default to reference equality for ==.
In the programming I do (which certainly is only a small subset of programming ...
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Did the developers of Java consciously abandon RAII?
As a long-time C# programmer, I have recently come to learn more about the advantages of Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII). In particular, I have discovered that the C# idiom:
using (var ...
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