理解idioms in Programming

• Overview

  Specialpurpose syntactic constructs in programming languages are known as “idioms”.

• idioms

  An idiom is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase; but some phrases become figurative idioms while retaining the literal meaning of the phrase.

  A programming idiom is the usual way to code a task in a specific language.

  There are many possibilities to write a code, using the idiom makes it immediately identifiable by experienced readers.

• References

1. 《Good Habits for Great Coding Improving Programming Skills with Examples in Python》读书笔记
2. What is a programming idiom?
3. What is idiomatic?