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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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