Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

Does it ever make sense to declare a variable in C or C++ as both volatile (in other words, “ever-changing”) and const (“read-only”)? If so, why? And how should you combine volatile and const properly ...

Although rarely used, the bash declare statement does have a couple useful options. It can mark a variable as read only and also mark it as being a number only. To declare a variable as read only, use ...

I'm part of a coding project that's written in Perl. We've acknowledged the world's moved on, plus Perl allowed (sometimes encouraged!) some crummy coding habits. So the general consensus is we're ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The biggest language change packaged with the Java 10 release, aka JDK 18.3, was the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type ...

The July update of the Java functionality for Visual Studio Code includes new refactoring capabilities, support for Semantic Selection (or Smart Selection) and more. "After performing extract to ...