THERE are two reasons for the growing interest in the generation of characteristic X-rays by heavy particle bombardment 1 as opposed to electron irradiation. The resultant X-rays are virtually free ...

The ability to declare a variable as static for a proc etc so global variables don't have to be used and thus stored in the BSS segment affecting efficiency. Closures could be used, at the expense of ...

Nested classes are classes that are declared as members of other classes or scopes. Nesting classes is one way to better organize your code. For example, say you have a non-nested class (also known as ...

Abstract: Various static code analysis tools have been designed to automatically detect software faults and security vulnerabilities. This paper aims to 1) conduct an empirical evaluation to assess ...

what I would like to propose is not a change as such of the package, but a change in the way of using it. I have recently been testing the package and it works great, I love it, but in general I hate ...

Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...