Semantic Diff Utilities [closed]

We’ve developed a tool that is able to precisely deal with this scenario. Check http://www.semanticmerge.com It merges (and diffs) based on code structure and not using text-based algorithms, which basically allows you to deal with cases like the following, involving strong refactor. It is also able to render both the differences and the merge conflicts … Read more

‘not a statement’ in Java

Java restricts the types of expressions that are allowed in so-called “expression statements”. Only meaningful expressions that have potential side effects are allowed. It disallows semantically meaningless statements like 0; or a + b;. They’re simply excluded from the language grammar. A function call like foo() can, and usually does, have side effects, so it … Read more

Reference Guide: What does this symbol mean in PHP? (PHP Syntax)

Incrementing / Decrementing Operators ++ increment operator — decrement operator Example Name Effect ——————————————————————— ++$a Pre-increment Increments $a by one, then returns $a. $a++ Post-increment Returns $a, then increments $a by one. –$a Pre-decrement Decrements $a by one, then returns $a. $a– Post-decrement Returns $a, then decrements $a by one. These can go before or … Read more

boolean in an if statement

First off, the facts: if (booleanValue) Will satisfy the if statement for any truthy value of booleanValue including true, any non-zero number, any non-empty string value, any object or array reference, etc… On the other hand: if (booleanValue === true) This will only satisfy the if condition if booleanValue is exactly equal to true. No … Read more

Which is more correct: … OR …

Both versions are correct. The biggest difference between them is that in the case of <h1><a>..</a></h1> only the text in the title will be clickable. If you put the <a> around the <h1> and the css display property is block (which it is by default) the entire block (the height of the <h1> and 100% … Read more

Is there an algorithm that tells the semantic similarity of two phrases

You might want to check out this paper: Sentence similarity based on semantic nets and corpus statistics (PDF) I’ve implemented the algorithm described. Our context was very general (effectively any two English sentences) and we found the approach taken was too slow and the results, while promising, not good enough (or likely to be so … Read more