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| Jul 20, 2011 at 17:31 | history | edited | DeadMG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2011 at 17:26 | comment | added | DeadMG | @Robert Dailey: How could incrementing possibly be an idiom? It's part of the language. Idioms are made by a language's users, they change over time. Incrementing is not an idiom, it's a basic functionality of the language. Taking that logic, I could say that any other basic language function is an idiom, and therefore every program is idiomatic, which it is not. | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 16:53 | comment | added | void.pointer | Wikipedia used incrementing as an example, so that's why I mentioned it in my question. Why are idioms required to be complex? This doesn't seem like part of the definition based on the other answers. | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 16:43 | history | answered | DeadMG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |