desugar

verb — 2 senses

desugar

verb

Etymology From de- + sugar.

1

To remove sugar from.

Chiefly food processing

2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Informal To remove syntactic sugar from.

The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array.2025 December 20, Luca Lombardo, Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?:

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