Not to pile on, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar If the behavior can be expressed using previousl

Not to pile on, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar If the behavior can be expressed using previously existing syntax, then a construction is syntactic sugar. This is not true in this case. (sorry if you knew this already)