syntactic salt

English

Etymology

Coined analogously with syntactic sugar.

Pronunciation

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Noun

syntactic salt (uncountable)

1. (programming) Additions to a programming language that make it harder to write bad code.

   Coordinate term: syntactic sugar

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語法鹽／语法盐 (yǔfǎ yán)

• Dutch: syntactisch zout n
• French: sel syntaxique m
• German: syntaktisches Salz n
• Ido: sintaxala salo
• Italian: sale sintattico m
• Portuguese: sal sintático m
• Russian: синтакси́ческая со́ль f (sintaksíčeskaja sólʹ)
• Spanish: sal sintáctica f
• Swedish: syntaktiskt salt n
• Turkish: sözdizimsel tuz
• Ukrainian: синтаксична сіль f (syntaksyčna silʹ)