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In this book, you see many templatelike, general-purpose program
patterns—sometimes called programming
idioms—that you can fill in to suit your own specific purpose. In these
patterns, each place to be filled in is identified by a description of the
item to be inserted, such as this phrase.
When you fill in a pattern, replacing descriptions with specific instances of the general categories described, you are said to instantiate the pattern.