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| | Program components must be designed for reusability. There is a set of design techniques that makes object-oriented software more reusable. Many of these techniques are widely used within the object-oriented programming community, but few of them have ever been written down. This article describes and organizes these techniques.
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| | This is part of the book Category Theory for Programmers. The previous instalment was Category: The Essence of Composition. See the Table of Contents. The category of types and functions plays an important role in programming, so let's talk about what types are and why we need them. Who Needs Types? There seems to be...
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| So first, I should probably set the scene: in a special-purpose browser, automated and driven by JavaScript, there was a string that made no sense. Anytime it should have contained an apostrophe, it produced invalid JSON. Why would it do that, you ask? Well, after far too long digging into the way that smart quotes are represented in Unicode, I finally figured it out. A single left apostrophe, also known as \u2019, takes up three bytes. The third byte happens to be \x19, the obscure ^Y control character. Control characters aren't allowed in JSON strings, and so things exploded.