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How to bind C/C++ functions for my language [closed]
I'm making an interpreter (currently in python but later I'll remake it in C++) and I wondered how I could use a C/C++ function in my language so when somebody wants to write an extension for my ...
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Capture by value/reference and early/late binding
Is capture by value (x below) an early binding and capture by reference (y below) a late binding in C++ lambdas, or are they both early bindings—the first by value and the second by reference? #...
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Is it possible to query data in a RDMS without writing SQL?
Disclaimer: I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to SQL or RDBMS in general. I've encountered this interesting answer about SQL as a language: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1643440/414063 This ...
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How Would I Create Bindings to a GUI toolkit like GTK, Tk, or Qt for a Programming Language?
The title says it all. How would I, in theory, create a binding for different GUI toolkits for a programming language that has no GUI bindings. I ask because I want to experiment with this sometime ...
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What is late binding?
I know, there are lots of sources on the internet, but I do not understand them. Wikipedia: "Late binding, dynamic binding, or dynamic linkage is a computer programming mechanism in which the method ...
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What's the exact usage of the term "foreign function interfaces"?
I'm working on a project that requires using multiple programming languages. I'm confused about what term to use to specify the interfaces available to bind two languages, e.g JNI, ctypes, jpype, etc. ...
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Can you explain the behavior of PHP in cases when a parent class variable is masked by the child variable of the same name? [closed]
See the comment inside ChildEntity ::__construct(): class ChildEntity extends ParentEntity { /** @var int */ protected $classParameter; function __construct(int $classParameter) { ...
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For what reasons would you use AngularJS expression (&) binding instead of using events?
Like the title asks, for what reasons would you use the ampersand binding in AngularJS instead of utilizing an event system--especially in a case where your application already uses events for some ...
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Is data binding in an SQL RDBMS a fruitful endeavour?
I've found that a common task for web applications I've built is to react to a change in the state of the database. That is, any user interaction that affects the persistent state may change views ...
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Relation between static and dynamic bindings and scopings?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_binding name binding is the association of entities (data and/or code) with identifiers.[1] An identifier bound to an object is said to reference that object. ...
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Differences between deep and shallow bindings for static scoping
I am self-learning Michael L. Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics. The following quote explains how deep binding and shallow binding are different in the presence of static scoping: program ...
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ADO.NET - Is it better to handle a combo box or label event, and where should the data be sourced from?
Context I recently wrote a final exam that required using a BindingSource object with ADO.NET to populate a number of combo box and label controls from which the user could perform basic business ...
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Best practise for databinding when a non-data object is included with the data
I'm using .NET with Windows Forms, but I believe there may be similar concerns with other toolkits. Suppose we have a list of objects of a certain type. Using an example to make the following easier ...
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Should my combobox for boolean values be in code-behind or in my viewmodel?
I ran into a disagreement with a coworker of mine on the implementation of representing a Boolean value in a ComboBox using Xaml and MVVM. Currently, my viewmodel is very simple. I have a bool? which ...
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Why does C provide language 'bindings' where C++ falls short?
I recently was wondering when to use C over C++, and vice versa? Fortunately someone already beat me to it and although it took a while, I was able to digest all the answers and comments to that ...
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