special-casing

It also makes maintenance easier when you use the most flexible tool at your disposal everywhere instead of special-casing.

Another way to diminish that special-casing is going to the extreme other end: object.object.object.method().

Maybe it makes sense to special-case speech here, but I'm always more comfortable with ideas that don't need special-casing.

A lot of parts of the specification need special-casing for primitive types and/or arrays, which most languages handle in a more unified way (e.g.

I don't actually care about animals from an empathetic level, I just dislike the inelegance that happens from special-casing laws.

The Nvidia driver on Windows works correctly by special-casing known 4k monitors.

Why is special-casting json or jsonb worse than special-casing arrays?

I was under the impression that they just stopped delivering them from Walmart (or wherever) via Shopping Express, rather than special-casing the search results.

Do you not see that you're just special-casing your own species because you happen to be a member of it and because it happens to be at the top?

Note I'm not defending the specific use of it here to write odd-looking regex code - I just think it's interesting that the language is flexible enough to allow that kind of usage without special-casing it.

But what we're seeing in practice from many major frameworks and apps is that they're unifying events anyway and special-casing the device type when needed for a great experience.