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[–] brokenix@emacs.ch 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) @s20 @throwawayish whats the difference between idiom and boilerplate code --- pardon my ignorance , haven't read the article yet permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] s20@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) In this case, I'm using idiom in its "I was a Creative Writing Major at College" sense; that is: A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in "keep tabs on". *credit to Wordnik.com So my use of the word here just means "expression" or "figure of speech," which is probably what I should have said in the first place; sorry for the confusion. Edit: a grammatical correction no one but me would probably notice or care about. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] s20@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) In this case, I'm using idiom in its "I was a Creative Writing Major at College" sense; that is: A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in "keep tabs on". *credit to Wordnik.com So my use of the word here just means "expression" or "figure of speech," which is probably what I should have said in the first place; sorry for the confusion. Edit: a grammatical correction no one but me would probably notice or care about. permalink fedilink source parent