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syntactic salt
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n. The opposite of syntactic sugar , a feature designed to make it harder to
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write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must
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jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to
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express a program action. Some programmers consider required type
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declarations to be syntactic salt. A requirement to write end if , end while
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, end do , etc.: to terminate the last block controlled by a control
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construct (as opposed to just end ) 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 candygrammar.
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