The Dilemma of Context Binding One of the most notable features of arrow functions is that they do not bind their own this; instead, they inherit the this value from the outer scope. This can simplify ...

But how many developers understand how HashMap works internally? A few days ago, I read a lot of the source code for java.util.HashMap (Java 7 followed by Java 8) to gain a deeper understanding of ...

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For Java, the default value of an array is an empty ArrayList as soon as it is declared as "required" in the enclosing object. In our case, we must reject the null value with the appropriate ...

Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

How to convert an object of objects (initial form of object) into object of arrays of objects (target form of object) I am interested in every way to do this, but I am particularly interested in ...