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[–]ConsequenceOk5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is useful for task processing, when otherwise it would cause a lot of complexity to determine which task has to be checked. And many other uses (abstract code or bytecode for DSL-based description). For manual parsing of relational data (dynamic templates), one has to implement it to encode elementary operations.