In light of the "Hidden features of..." series of questions, what little-known features of PL/SQL have become useful to you?
Edit: Features specific to PL/SQL are preferred over features of Oracle's SQL syntax. However, because PL/SQL can use most of Oracle's SQL constructs, they may be included if they make programming in PL/SQL easier...
In light of the "Hidden features of..." series of questions, what little-known features of BCPL have become useful to you?
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In the spirit of:
Hidden Features of C#
Hidden Features of Java
Hidden Features of ASP.NET
Hidden Features of Python
Hidden Features of HTML
and other Hidden Features questions
What are the hidden features of Erlang that every Erlang developer should be aware of?
One hidden feature per answer, please.
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Which features of the VBA language are either poorly documented, or simply not often used?
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What are all the special (magic) methods in Python? The __xxx__ methods, that is.
I'm often looking for a way to override something which I know is possible to do through one of these methods, but I'm having a hard time to find how since as far as I can tell there is no definitive list of these methods, PLUS their names are not really G...
I found a lot of interesting info in the 'hidden features of...' series. I'm a AS3 developer so I want to add this question about AS3 as well for all the flash/flex developers out there. So, what are the lesser-known but useful features of AS3 and Flex framework that you know ?
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Here is a large number of hidden features discussed for variety of languages. Now I am curious about some hidden features of XAML and WPF?
One I have found is the header click event of a ListView
<ListView x:Name='lv'
Height="150"
GridViewColumnHeader.Click="GridViewColumnHeaderClickedHandler">
The GridViewColumnHeader...
Community wiki. At least I think it's worthy of that. I've always been interested in some of the inner workings of jQuery, and a great question prompted this.
I'm not talking about cool stuff you can do with jQuery but more subtleties of how it works. Maybe links to helpful posts could come in here.
One example is that $() is interc...
Guys, I am thoroughly surprised that there is no Flash Hidden Features post yet in the Hidden Features series that I've been tracking for a while now.
There is a recent AS3/Flex one but it's not very active and I don't exactly mean just AS3 when I say Flash here.
The Hidden Features series is great for people who are new to a certain l...
I just wondered whether it's possible to match against the same values for multiple times with the pattern matching facilities of functional programming languages (Haskell/F#/Caml).
Just think of the following example:
plus a a = 2 * a
plus a b = a + b
The first variant would be called when the function is invoked with two similar va...
After seeing many hidden features about programming language, i would like to know hidden features of Spring "de facto" framework. As you know, Spring documentation hides many features and would be nice to share it.
And you: what hidden feature of Spring framework do you know ?
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What are the hidden features of XPath AND XSLT?
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What are some hidden-features of x86 Assembly Language? What Tips and Tricks do you have for working with x86 Assembly language?
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What are some features of Emacs Lisp that you use to solve real problems?
One feature per answer
Give an example and short description of the feature, not just a link to documentation
Label the feature using bold title as the first line
See also:
Hidden features of Python
Hidden features of Ruby
Hidden features of Perl
Hidden featu...
Guys, I am surprised that there is no Android Hidden Features post yet in the Hidden Features series that I've been tracking for a while now.
The Hidden Features series is great for people who are new to a certain language. It shows the ropes and certain valuable tricks, all in one place. I think it's a brilliant idea. Even experts some...
So i dont know everything about C.
What is useful about this C syntax?
int func (p, p2)
void *p;
int p2;
{
return 0;
}
I was able to write this in visual studios 2010beta
//yes the params are flipped
void f()
{
void *v=0;
func(5,v);
}
I dont understand. Whats the point of this syntax? i can write
int func (p, ...
Up until yesterday, I had no idea iTextSharp included a full set of barcode classes. I discovered this through a chance answer to a question here on SO. Although I'd used iTextSharp in an earlier incarnation for generating some overlay text on a template PDF, I'd never fully explored the library, nor do I even recall Barcode support bein...
Continuing on the hidden features theme, I havent found one for SQLCLR (Microsoft 2005 / 2008).
For example, undocumented features, tricks to do things which are very useful but not documented enough? Also features that are very useful in general.
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Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which
logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your
computer and the Internet.
Do you happen to know about anything cool, yet pretty hidden in Fiddler (version 2)? Or a cool addon (that doesn't appear in the official site)?
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What are some of the R statistical language's "hidden features"?
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