On 17/05/2011 21:44, Stewart Gordon wrote: <snip>
Features to improve the readability of code are the very definition of syntactic sugar. Indeed, Prolog programmers rely on syntactic sugar a lot.
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Come to think of it, some of the everyday features of programming languages generally are syntactic sugar. For example:
- comments - whitespace - operator precedence/associativity rules - comma-separated declarations - with statements - many of the logical operators found in C-like languages Stewart.
