syntactic sugar

English

Etymology

Attributed to British computer scientist Peter Landin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

syntactic sugar (uncountable)

1. (programming) 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.

   Coordinate term: syntactic salt

   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

Derived terms

• desugar
• desugared
• syntactic saccharin
• syntactic salt
• syntactic syrup

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: التَّجْمِيل اللُّغَوِيّ m (at-tajmīl al-luḡawiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語法ごほう糖とう／语法糖とう (yǔfǎ táng)

• Czech: syntaktický cukr m
• Dutch: syntactische suiker m
• Finnish: syntaktinen sokeri
• French: sucre syntaxique (fr) m
• German: syntaktischer Zucker m
• Ido: sintaxala sukro
• Italian: zucchero sintattico m
• Japanese: 糖衣とうい構文こうぶん (とういこうぶん, tōikōbun), 構文こうぶん糖とう (こうぶんとう, kōbuntō), 構文こうぶん糖衣とうい (こうぶんとうい, kōbuntōi), シンタックス・シュガー
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syntaktisk sukker n

• Polish: lukier składniowy m, lukier syntaktyczny m, cukier syntaktyczny m, cukier składniowy m
• Portuguese: açúcar sintático m
• Russian: синтакси́ческий са́хар m (sintaksíčeskij sáxar)
• Spanish: azúcar sintáctico m
• Swedish: syntaktiskt socker n
• Turkish: sözdizimsel şeker
• Ukrainian: синтаксичний цукор m (syntaksyčnyj cukor)

See also

• pretty-print

Further reading

• syntactic sugar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia