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Maybe you’re a closet Clojure or Scala developer, or perhaps you’ve worked with LISP in the past. If so, there’s a good chance you’ve used a REPL as a part of your daily routine. REPL, or ...

"What is an REPL?" you ask. An REPL is a command-line tool for quickly running statements. In my description, the word "statements" is important. In Java, you normally don't run a single statement or ...

Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want. Copying objects ...