For people that routinely switch between programming languages like me, it's temping to try to get the best of all and mix language features.

When designing a class, it's a good thing to consider reusability. The subject of this entry is to examine objects of a class that are able to replicate, and the consequences this has on making the class reusable.

Object replication means creating a new object from within the code. It doesn't have to be a copy, it just means here that a new object of the same class is created.

This is a very nice bug that I stumbled into while running the great auto_test tool on some code I had written. It is a beautiful example of a bug, because it is a very small bug that is still nearly undetectable for the average developer. Also, I do not know about any formal verification tool that could reveal the bug.