Top "Keyword" questions

Keywords are special words used as identifiers by a language.

What is the difference between "keyword" and "reserved word"?

What's the difference between a keyword and a reserved word? For example, in the proposal for concepts in C++ one …

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How do I extract keywords used in text?

How do I data mine a pile of text to get keywords by usage? ("Jacob Smith" or "fence") And is …

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What really is the purpose of "base" keyword in c#?

Thus for used base class for some commom reusable methods in every page of my application... public class BaseClass:System.…

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Haskell: Where vs. Let

I am new to Haskell and I am very confused by Where vs. Let. They both seem to provide a …

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Why use the `transient` keyword in java?

I have an issue related to the transient keyword's use before the private modifier in java . variable declaration: transient private …

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What does static mean in ANSI-C

Possible Duplicate: What does “static” mean in a C program? What does the static keyword mean in C ? I'm using …

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What is the "type" reserved word in TypeScript?

I just noticed when trying to create an interface in TypeScript that "type" is either a keyword or a reserved …

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Maximum characters in labels (table names, columns etc)

Hope this question wasn't asked before. Does anyone know the character limit for domain names? For example if I write …

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Python, why elif keyword?

I just started Python programming, and I'm wondering about the elif keyword. Other programming languages I've used before use else …

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SQL Server equivalent to MySQL's EXPLAIN

I was reading an SQL tutorial which used the keyword EXPLAIN to see how a query is executed. I tried …

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