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@dibblego@notcalledjack@EyalL It's a vague, non-formal idea. But lots of vague, non-formal ideas are valuable, even in programming.
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@dibblego My example J "idiom" appears on the quick-reference card. We can discuss the clumsiness of the posted synonyms if you'd like. -
@kaleidic So idiomatic means, "appears on quick-reference card" - Show replies
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@dibblego@kaleidic@notcalledjack establish a social pattern for enforce certain ways (better ones?) to write in a language -
@jneira@kaleidic@notcalledjack I have seen these. So "idiomatic" is a psychological "groupthink" phenomena? I am starting to agree. - Show replies
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@dibblego@kaleidic@notcalledjack you can write impure functions in haskell all the time but it's idiomatic to write pure ones -
@jneira@kaleidic@notcalledjack So idiomatic is the set difference between Haskell and SafeHaskell? - Show replies
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@dibblego GoF describe the "visitor pattern" which is basically cata encoding of sum types in a lang that lacks them. Patterns are useful...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dibblego workarounds for language deficienciesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dibblego for(i=0;... Is idiomatic in c simply because it's the common/consensus way of looping over indices in c. Less common ways aren'tThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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