syntactic sugar
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editAttributed to British computer scientist Peter Landin.
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edit- (computing) Additions to the syntax of a computer language that make code easier for humans to read or write, but that do not change the functionality or expressiveness of the language.
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edit- syntactic sugar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia