English-Finnish translations for syntactic sugar

• syntaktinen sokeri

Definition of syntactic sugar

• Additions to the syntax of a that make easier for humans to read or write, but that do not change the functionality or expressiveness of the language

Examples

• 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

Related words

• syntactic
• metasyntactic
• syntactician
• syntactically
• syntactical
• morphosyntactic
• morphosyntactical
• syntactics
• asyntactic