Bathsheba

Bathsheba has asked 37 questions and find answers to 1011 problems.

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I'm an equity partner at an asset management firm in London.

I read mathematics at Cambridge and have been using C and C++ for many years. I have an affection for Java. In my opinion, Microsoft Excel is the best application ever written.

Bathsheba questions

Is java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch.countDown() atomic?
How to sum arrays in Java
Standard Java pattern for wrapping a timeout around an errant process
Return type of getId() on a thread object
Using a $ literal in a GNUMakefile path
Equivalence of static const char* in a java function
Netbeans IDE not issuing warnings about methods called in constructors
Forward declare in nested namespace
Is (a = 0, a) + (a =1, a) undefined behaviour for int a?
What is the rationale behind the differences between the compiler diagnostics issued when it sees std::vector<Typo> and std::vector<struct Typo>

Bathsheba answers

Will default constructor still be created if I explicitly define a constructor with arguments?
Const text variable declaration C
Converting char* memory address to void* and back in C
Why can we use uninitialized variables in C++?
Should `using std::cin` and `using std::cout` be avoided or encouraged?
Excel chart smoothing algorithm
How is memory allocated in constructor released when the constructor throws an exception?
Group multiple cases together in the switch statement
Negating INT_MIN in CPP
How to show the current #pragma pack setting in C++?