August 3, 2001

Suppose you want to store the movements of a chess game in a file so that when the program terminates, the users can resume it later from the same point.

Often, it is helpful to find the current classpath. This can be done from within a Java program by using the following code: System.out.println(System.getProperty(

The term thunk dates back to the days of the antediluvian Algol programming language and has stuck since then. A thunk is an invisible and parameter-less function or procedure that

Dynamic linking — either in the form of shared libraries in Unix or Windows DLLs — is not defined by standard C++. However, this is a widely used feature among

A typical way in which constants or global variables are defined in Java is to define a class so it stores all the constant variables which are marked as

It is sometimes necessary to get the exception’s stack trace as String (for logging, reporting, etc.). Unfortunately, the Exception class itself provides only the getMessage() method which does not include

The concept of a variable argument list is rather common: void f(const char *format,

It is often helpful to provide a

There is a very simple way to get around the compile error when passing UDT (user-defined type) in procedure between forms. Just declare the procedure as Friend instead of Public.Example: