The syntactic sugar is perhaps what's special. Code without that isn't so pretty. I do find it impressive, however, because it's based on an abstract, wide-rang

The syntactic sugar is perhaps what's special. Code without that isn't so pretty. I do find it impressive, however, because it's based on an abstract, wide-ranging and extremely useful concept that can actually be expressed in the language without it. It follows the pattern that much syntactic sugar we take for granted has followed e.g a while loop is sugar on top of jumps and branching.