149 - Sugar that syntax

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Change log 

• I’m working back in the land of legacy.  PHP 5.6 
• Goose (My 2nd English Springer Spaniel) is now 9 weeks old and has razor teeth.  
• I’ve been working on using Vagrant, Docker, Parallels and Ansible to create a test lab for HTCW 
• We reviewed the documentation for tutorial 5 and 6 of the PHP login course  on Tuesdays live coding stream 
• I am talking at PHP North West Drupal User Group NWDUG next Tuesday at 7PM so I won’t be streaming on YouTube on Tuesday

What is Syntax Sugar 

This is a term used to describe code that is meant to be more readable and helpful to humans.  

• It’s sometimes called Candygramming
• Can shorten code to one liners which can be helpful and easier to read 
• Can be difficult to change and maintain in the future 
• Can lead to hidden magic features that are used in the language eg _get and _set 
• Is sometime perceived as a lazy way to write code 
• Reduces the syntax needed to perform an operation 
• If done badly then it can lead to over complication, bad abstraction and even worse code readability then before