syntactic sugar

"In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar

Unravelling `finally` and `else` from `try` statements

6 months ago 2 min read syntactic sugar Python

In the last post [https://snarky.ca/unravelling-elif-else-from-if-statements/] of my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I showed how you can get away with not having elif and else clauses on

Unravelling `elif`/`else` from `if` statements

6 months ago 2 min read syntactic sugar Python

While I won't be attempting to unravel if statements entirely as part of my blog series on Python's syntactic sugar [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I will be attempting to partially unravel them

Unravelling `break` and `continue`

6 months ago 3 min read syntactic sugar Python

I have previously unravelled for loops [https://snarky.ca/unravelling-for-statements/], and so the concept of looping has already come up in this blog post series of removing the syntactic sugar from Python. But

Unravelling decorators

8 months ago 2 min read syntactic sugar Python

For the next post in my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I thought I would tackle decorators [https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/compound_stmts.html#function-definitions] . Let's look

Unravelling data structure displays

9 months ago 4 min read syntactic sugar Python

The title of this next post in my series on Python's syntactic sugar [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] may seem odd: what's a "display" when it comes to data structures? It turns out