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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>syntactic salt</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sync.html" title="sync"/><link rel="next" href="syntactic-sugar.html" title="syntactic sugar"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">syntactic salt</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sync.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="syntactic-sugar.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="syntactic-salt"/><dt xmlns="" id="syntactic-salt"><b>syntactic salt</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The opposite of <a href="syntactic-sugar.html"><i class="glossterm">syntactic sugar</i></a>, a feature
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designed to make it harder to write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt
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is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows
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what's going on, rather than to express a program action. Some programmers
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consider required type declarations to be syntactic salt. A requirement to
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write <b class="command">end if</b>, <b class="command">end
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while</b>, <b class="command">end do</b>, etc.: to terminate
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the last block controlled by a control construct (as opposed to just
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<b class="command">end</b>) would definitely be syntactic salt.
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Syntactic salt is like the real thing in that it tends to raise hackers'
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blood pressures in an unhealthy way. Compare
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