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-We could kep adding cases to this handler function, but in a realistic application, it's convenient to define the logic for each case in a separate function.
+We could keep adding cases to this handler function, but in a realistic application, it's convenient to define the logic for each case in a separate function.
 
 To refactor our code, let's create a simple dispatcher which maps task type to its handler.