For Free: Adj. Said Of A Capability Of A Programming Language Or
Hardware Equipment That Is Available By Its Design Without Needing
Cleverness To Impleme
:for free: adj. Said of a capability of a programming language or
hardware equipment that is available by its design without needing
cleverness to implement: "In APL, we get the matrix operations for
free." "And owing to the way revisions are stored in this
system, you get revision trees for free." The term usually refers
to a serendipitous feature of doing things a certain way (compare
{big win}), but it may refer to an intentional but secondary
feature.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
clean: 1. adj. Used of hardware or software desig implies
`elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that
may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is
reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the
outside....