Desugar

verb, slang

verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove sugar from. transitive
  2. 2
    To remove syntactic sugar from. informal, transitive

    "The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array."

Example

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"The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array."

Etymology

From de- + sugar.

Related phrases

computer programsource code

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