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TIL stands for Today I Learned.

They were attempting to use a meme acronym sarcastically -- an example of content-free commenting that works well for karma elsewhere but hopefully doesn't gain a foothold here.

On topic, I agree with your amplification of your point.




If you use memes on HN, you're going to have a bad time.

(They tend to be downvoted to oblivion, 'round these parts.)


Oh. Thanks, I get it now.

I guess while syntactic sugar is usually considered a functionality of the language itself, it surely is used in the way I meant it, too... random search result:

http://www.developerdrive.com/2012/05/an-introduction-to-und...

"In this part of the tutorial we’re going to take a look at some of the syntactic sugar that Underscore gives us to work with array-like collection."

And of course, even if I had been utterly wrong for using the term, my point would stand unmoved, but you know that :)




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