syntactic sugar

English

Attributed to British computer scientist Peter Landin.

syntactic sugar (uncountable)

(computing) Additions to the syntax of 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

Arabic: التَّجْمِيل اللُّغَوِيّ‎ m (at-tajmīl al-luḡawiyy)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 語法糖／语法糖 (yǔfǎ táng)
Czech: syntaktický cukr m
Dutch: syntactische suiker m
Finnish: syntaktinen sokeri
French: sucre syntaxique (fr) m
German: syntaktischer Zucker m
Ido: sintaxala sukro
Italian: zucchero sintattico m
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), シンタックス・シュガー
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syntaktisk sukker n
Polish: lukier składniowy m, lukier syntaktyczny m, cukier syntaktyczny m, 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)