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by CerebralCerb 2251 days ago

  Specificity isn’t intuitive, and—especially for new developers—the results can often seem like a gotcha rather than the intended behavior. I’m also not sure there’s an equivalent in other systems or languages.
It is widely used as a conflict resolution strategy in production systems. I've never encountered a student who found specificity to be a difficult concept to grasp.