syntactic sugar
syntactic sugar noun: 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.
Noun
syntactic sugar (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
syntactic sugar meaning in Arabic
syntactic sugar in Arabic
- Translations
- التَّجْمِيل اللُّغَوِيّ at-tajmīl al-luḡawiyy
Origin of syntactic sugar
Attributed to British computer scientist Peter Landin.
Words formed from syntactic sugar
- desugar
- desugared
- syntactic saccharin
- syntactic salt
- syntactic syrup
Questions about syntactic sugar
- What does syntactic sugar mean?
- Syntactic sugar means 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.
- What is syntactic sugar in Arabic?
- Syntactic sugar in Arabic is التَّجْمِيل اللُّغَوِيّ (at-tajmīl al-luḡawiyy). See Syntactic sugar meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is syntactic sugar?
- Syntactic sugar is a noun.
Words near syntactic sugar in the dictionary
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