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for free
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adj. [common] Said of a capability of a programming language or hardware
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that is available by its design without needing cleverness to implement: In
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APL, we get the matrix operations for free. And owing to the way revisions
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are stored in this system, you get revision trees for free. The term usually
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refers to a serendipitous feature of doing things a certain way (compare big
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win ), but it may refer to an intentional but secondary feature.
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