I think things like syntactic sugar is perfectly fine, as long as I can desugar it in a straightforward way. I want to be able to programmatically desugar some

I think things like syntactic sugar is perfectly fine, as long as I can desugar it in a straightforward way. I want to be able to programmatically desugar some piece of code, not have to Google it each time I am curious. I think that if it is easy to investiage things like syntactic sugar, and not have it be buried in something like a compiler or lang spec, then DSL/language implementers (and anyone else, if the language permits it) could get away with implementing things that objectively make the language more complex to deal with, because to decipher it is only a query away, anyway.