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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Ada Idioms Progress Preview
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:58:27 +0300
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The way I see it, idioms indeed are the things Robert described as
>To me an idiom is a combination of features that is not so obvious

but I extend the defintion a bit.
Even if we are talking about a specific feature, and not a combination of
features, I'd be willing to call something an idiom, if it is not obvious.
Which brings us the question of what 'obvious' really is...

Since most programmers have backgrounds in other languages, some Ada
features may not be very obvious at first. In fact, I'd assume these are
features that accomplish something that requires an idiom in some other
language.
So an idiom list may include end-results that may encourage idiomatic
programming in other languages, but can be achieved in Ada using one of
Ada's "special" features.

Ehud Lamm