Special-case

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of special case (“treat specially”). alt-of, alternative

    "Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values."

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allowancecessioncircumscriptionconcessiondefinitenessexception

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"Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values."

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