Meanings
verbspecial-case (third-person singular simple present special-cases, present participle special-casing, simple past and past participle special-cased)
present singular third person special-cases · participle present special-casing · participle past special-cased · past special-cased
- alternativeAlternative form of special case (“treat specially”).
Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values.
2009, Peter Seibel, Coders at Work
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