Such things are called "syntactic sugar". They are common in other languages. Quote: «A construct in a language is called "syntactic sugar" if it can be removed

Such things are called "syntactic sugar". They are common in other languages. Quote: «A construct in a language is called "syntactic sugar" if it can be removed from the language without any effect on what the language can do: functionality and expressive power will remain the same.»[0] Another quote: «Data types with core syntactic support are said to be "sugared types." Common examples include quote-delimited strings, curly braces for object and record types, and square brackets for Arrays.» [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar