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syntactic salt
(foldoc) | syntactic salt
The opposite of syntactic sugar, a feature designed to make
it harder to write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is
a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he
knows what's going on, rather than to express a program
action. Some programmers consider required type declarations
to be syntactic salt. A requirement to write "end if", "end
while", "end do", etc. to terminate the last block controlled
by a control construct (as opposed to just "end") would
definitely be syntactic salt. Syntactic salt is like the real
thing in that it tends to raise hackers' blood pressures in an
unhealthy way. Compare candygrammar.
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syntactic salt
(jargon) | syntactic salt
n.
The opposite of syntactic sugar, a feature designed to make it harder to
write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must
jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to
express a program action. Some programmers consider required type
declarations to be syntactic salt. A requirement to write end if, end while
, end do, etc.: to terminate the last block controlled by a control
construct (as opposed to just end) would definitely be syntactic salt.
Syntactic salt is like the real thing in that it tends to raise hackers'
blood pressures in an unhealthy way. Compare candygrammar.
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