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 subscriptions in Python

14 Jan 2022 2 min read syntactic sugar

For the next post in my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] I want to cover subscriptions [https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/expressions.html#subscriptions]. It's quite

Unravelling `from` for `raise` statements

08 Jan 2022 2 min read syntactic sugar

As part of my series on Python's syntax [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] , I want to tackle the from clause for raise statements [https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/simple_

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

24 Dec 2021 2 min read syntactic sugar

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

22 Dec 2021 2 min read syntactic sugar

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

Unravelling `break` and `continue`

15 Dec 2021 3 min read syntactic sugar

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