transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]
The opposite of syntactic sugar , a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to express a program action. Some programmers consider required type declarations to be syntactic salt. A requirement to write end if , end while , end do , etc. to terminate the last block controlled by a control construct (as opposed to just end ) would definitely be syntactic salt. Syntactic salt is like the real thing in that it tends to raise hackers' blood pressures in an unhealthy way. Compare candygrammar .