Re: Ada Idioms Progress Preview

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <SCIb7.37009$Kd7.22894159@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
> Perhaps Ada should not have idioms.  An idiom makes no sense to someone
> who doesn't know it, eg "He lost his marbles".  Unless it's so well
> known that you can guarantee that a maintenance programmer will
> recognize it, you shouldn't be, and shouldn't have to be, using it.

	MY_VAR : MY_TYPE := MY_FUNC(37);

is an idiom.  It is strange to someone just learning Ada, but familiar
to somewhat who knows Ada.  That is analogous to idioms in English.