syntactic salt

Questions

What does syntactic salt mean?

A feature of a programming language intended to serve as a guardrail against writing code with an unintended meaning.

Where does syntactic salt come from?

Coined analogously with syntactic sugar.

How to pronounce syntactic salt

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