Tag: iteration

Why I Completely Forgot That Programming Languages Have While Loops

Posted on by lukaseder

I've recently made an embarassing discovery: https://twitter.com/lukaseder/status/757987329441234944 Yes. In all of my professional work with PL/SQL (and that has been quite a bit, in the banking industry), I have never really used a WHILE loop - at least not that I recall. The idea of a WHILE loop is simple, and it is available in … Continue reading Why I Completely Forgot That Programming Languages Have While Loops →

Java’s Arrays.asList(…) is underused

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Writing nice and concise code is feasible in Java as well, not only in those hyped, new, and fancy scripting languages. Here are some examples on how to use the Java 5 varargs Arrays.asList() method in nice contexts: Run a block for n constant values // If you have VAL_A, VAL_B, VAL_C and you want … Continue reading Java’s Arrays.asList(…) is underused →