syntactic sugar

Before I move on to the next iteration example, you should know about one other bit of syntactic sugar regarding Maps in Groovy.

JUnit users will immediately note that this class lacks much of the syntactic sugar required by previous versions of JUnit.

Finally, you see one more bit of Groovy syntactic sugar you can use when calling getters on a class.

When classes were introduced to the code base of what was to become PHP3. 0, they were added as syntactic sugar for accessing collections.

The kind of syntactic sugar you'll find with strings and lists is common in Haskell, but just remember: Everything is a function.

We'd probably need some form of syntactic sugar to make these augmented parameter declarations tolerable.

I'm using Groovy's syntactic sugar to execute a code block, which is to place a set of parentheses adjacent to the code block's variable.

Go encourages the use of composition and delegation over inheritance, and offers some syntactic sugar to make it more bearable.

Syntactic sugar and nifty APIs are intact, as in the case of normal-Java File types, which I'll show you later.

When your language is nowhere near Turing - complete , syntactic sugar can be your friend .

Combined with some syntactic sugar, this feature permits the user to define methods that look and behave like operators.

The Hamcrest matchers provide a humane interface syntactic sugar on top of the standard JUnit matchers.

Their argument is that a little convenience is not worth the price of corrupting the simplicity of syntactic sugar.

In certain cases, mobl adds syntactic sugar for particular libraries.

Objects were still very much syntactic sugar for associative arrays, and didn't offer users too many additional features.

I think this is a good way to move ahead and provides for just about enough syntactic sugar without going the complete JRuby way.