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syntactic sugar

syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express
Class type of: syntax Q734781
syntactic sugar
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Facts

3 properties
Subclass of
syntax[2]
Named after
sugar[1]
Opposite of
syntactic salt[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en syntactic sugar ar سكر نحوي cs syntaktický cukr da Syntaktisk sukker de syntaktischer Zucker es azúcar sintáctico es azucar sintactico fa سینتکس قندی fi Syntaktinen sokeri fr sucre syntaxique he ממתק תחבירי id Pemanis sintaksis it zucchero sintattico ja シンタックス・シュガー ja シンタックスシュガー ja 構文糖 ja 糖衣構文 ko 신택틱 슈거 nl syntactische suiker pl lukier składniowy
🔖 Identifiers · 9
ComputerLanguage.com definition
syntactic sugar
FOLDOC ID
syntactic+sugar
Freebase ID
/m/0764c
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
73450505
NicoNicoPedia ID
シンタックスシュガー
Quora topic ID
Syntactic-Sugar-programming
ScienceDirect topic ID
computer-science/syntactic-sugar
Stack Exchange tag
stackoverflow.com
Zhihu topic ID
19625826

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