Lazy loading, or what is also referred to as Lazy Initialization is the process of delaying the instantiation of an object, deferring it until needed. Working with limited or scarce memory resources, it can be helpful to sometimes only take what you need (or in this case use what you need when you need it). “A […]

Nested Functions An under-utiilzed but interesting use of functions are as nested functions, functions that are essentially not global but privately embedded within another function. Sure you can have functions declared as private, but that will only protected the function from being accessed by another class.  Protected from external access, nested functions can be called and used by their enclosing […]