Saccharin is a sugar substitute, and syntactic saccharin refers to syntax that offers little or no value to the programmer. Syntactic saccharin might be a symbol or word that is always required even ...

Formal models of syntax typically accord the structural position external to the verb's domain a privileged status in the overall syntactic makeup of a language, either by assuming that external ...

Coding rules in a programming language that enforce a discipline such as requiring that all variables be typed (identified) as string, integer and so forth. Syntactic salt irritates programmers who ...