Arrow’s voting theorem of Economics
I was in the dining hall, and the TV there had some talking heads babbling about the stock market. I couldn’t really make out what they were saying, but it set the stage in my mind for some other thoughts….
Const-correctness
One of my fellow lab-mates has already posted about const-correctness, because of some similar issues. My work today, takes it a tiny bit further into sheer insanity. If you don’t start your program off using a const-correctness discipline, it’s very…
Type-dispatch with Exceptions
I’m one of those Object Oriented programmers that consider type-inspection to be a design flaw. Much to my chagrin, I’ve found myself making occasional use of the Java instanceof keyword. In my most recent class lecture, we discussed Exceptions, and…