syntactic sugar en · NOUN
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Etymology
Attributed to British computer scientist Peter Landin.
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(uncountable) Additions to the syntax of a programming language that make code easier for humans to read or write, but that do not change the functionality or expressiveness of the language.
In fact, this is how lists are actually built, by consing all elements to the empty list, []. The commas-and-brackets notation is just syntactic sugar, a more pleasant way to write code. So [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] is exactly equivalent to 1:2:3:4:5:[]. ᵂᴮ
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syntactic salt · syntactic syrup · desugar · desugared · syntactic saccharin
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Translations (24)
pt açúcar sintático (Translations) · ja 構文糖衣 (Translations) · ar التَّجْمِيل اللُّغَوِيّ (Translations) · nl syntactische suiker (Translations) · uk синтаксичний цукор (Translations) · it zucchero sintattico (Translations) · ru синтакси́ческий са́хар (Translations) · fi syntaktinen sokeri (Translations) · pl lukier składniowy (Translations) · ja 構文糖 (Translations) · pl cukier składniowy (Translations) · cs syntaktický cukr (Translations) · tr sözdizimsel şeker (Translations) · es azúcar sintáctico (Translations) · pl cukier syntaktyczny (Translations) · sv syntaktiskt socker (Translations) · cmn 語法糖 /语法糖 (Translations) · io sintaxala sukro (Translations) · de syntaktischer Zucker (Translations) · ja シンタックス・シュガー (Translations) · fr sucre syntaxique (Translations) · ja 糖衣構文 (Translations) · pl lukier syntaktyczny (Translations) · nb syntaktisk sukker (Translations)