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Why are slice and range upper-bound exclusive?

Why does Java not allow foreach on iterators (only on iterables)?

Python: What's the difference between __builtin__ and __builtins__?

Why does c++ pointer * associate to the variable declared, not the type?

Why can't an interface implementation return a more specific type?

What would Clojure lose by switching away from leading parenthesis like Dylan, Julia and Seph?

What are Haskell's strictness points?

Performance of "direct" virtual call vs. interface call in C#

Why are private fields private to the type, not the instance?

Why does Python treat tuples, lists, sets and dictionaries as fundamentally different things?