Top "Keyword" questions

Keywords are special words used as identifiers by a language.

Groovy: what's the purpose of "def" in "def x = 0"?

In the following piece of code (taken from the Groovy Semantics Manual page), why prefix the assignment with the keyword …

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new keyword in method signature

While performing a refactoring, I ended up creating a method like the example below. The datatype has been changed for …

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Finding words after keyword in python

I want to find words that appear after a keyword (specified and searched by me) and print out the result. …

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Search in html source with GOOGLE?

I have several websites, and I can't remember where I wrote some lines of code. As my pages are indexed …

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Is there any reason to use the 'auto' keyword in C++03?

Note this question was originally posted in 2009, before C++11 was ratified and before the meaning of the auto keyword was …

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`final` keyword equivalent for variables in Python?

I couldn't find documentation on an equivalent of Java's final in Python, is there such a thing? I'm creating a …

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What is the difference between "AS" and "IS" in an Oracle stored procedure?

I see Oracle procedures sometimes written with "AS", and sometimes with "IS" keyword. CREATE OR REPLACE Procedure TESTUSER.KILLINSTANCE (INSTANCEID …

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What are Virtual Methods?

Why would you declare a method as "virtual". What is the benefit in using virtual?

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`static` keyword inside function?

I was looking at the source for Drupal 7, and I found some things I hadn't seen before. I did some …

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