I think syntactic sugar can make some things so convenient that people find novel uses for them. The ranged slicing operations in Python are really nice, for ex

I think syntactic sugar can make some things so convenient that people find novel uses for them. The ranged slicing operations in Python are really nice, for example; so is templating Lisp code with ` , ,@ once you get used to it. Adding SS also adds to what you need to remember to use the language effectively (and to read other peoples' code), but a little bit of syntactic sugar can go a really long way.