Alan Gauld wrote: >> Syntactic sugar *IS* a practical benefit. After all, every language above >> assember is syntactic sugar, and by your definition of no practical use. >> > > Ah, but by that standard even assembler is syntactic sugar, now > where are those hex codes and my keypunch? :-) Only those of us who keyed the bin loader into a PDP-8 by toggling switches, each representing one bit, can claim to be the most free of syntactic sugar.
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