syntactic sugar

syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express
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syntactic sugar

Summary

syntactic sugar ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (51 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • syntactic sugar's image is recorded as Syntactic sugar example in golang.png[2].
  • sugar is named after syntactic sugar[3].
  • syntactic sugar's subclass of is recorded as syntax[4].
  • syntactic sugar's opposite of is recorded as syntactic salt[5].
  • syntactic sugar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0764c[6].
  • syntactic sugar's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/syntactic-sugar[7].
  • syntactic sugar's Quora topic ID is recorded as Syntactic-Sugar-programming[8].
  • syntactic sugar's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19625826[9].
  • syntactic sugar's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 73450505[10].
  • syntactic sugar's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as シンタックスシュガー[11].
  • syntactic sugar's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/syntactic-sugar[12].
  • syntactic sugar's FOLDOC ID is recorded as syntactic+sugar[13].
  • syntactic sugar's ComputerLanguage.com definition is recorded as syntactic sugar[14].

Why It Matters

syntactic sugar ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (51 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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