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syntactic salt
     
        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}.
     
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