syntactic sugar

English

syntactic sugar (uncountable)

(computing) Additions to a computer 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

Japanese: 糖衣構文 (とういこうぶん, tōikōbun), 構文糖 (こうぶんとう, kōbuntō), 構文糖衣 (こうぶんとうい, kōbuntōi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syntaktisk sukker n
Polish: lukier składniowy m, lukier syntaktyczny m, cukier syntaktyczny m, ^{(please verify)} 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)

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