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dynamically-typed

dynamically-typed adjective: belonging to a type system that checks the variable types at runtime.

Adjective

dynamically-typed (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to a type system that checks the variable types at runtime.
    • Lua is a dynamically typed language. This means that variables do not have types; only values do. There are no type definitions in the language. All values carry their own type. All values in Lua are first-class values. This means that all values can be stored in variables, passed as arguments to...2013, Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes, “Lua 5.2 Reference Manual”, in ControlByWeb, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2024, page 1
    • A dynamically typed language does not require the programmer to declare the type of data a variable holds before using it. Python is a dynamically typed language.2022, Ronald T. Kneusel, Strange Code: Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 54

Antonyms of dynamically-typed

Forms of dynamically-typed

alternative formdynamically typed

Questions about dynamically-typed

What does dynamically-typed mean?
Dynamically-typed means belonging to a type system that checks the variable types at runtime.
What part of speech is dynamically-typed?
Dynamically-typed is an adjective.

Words near dynamically-typed in the dictionary

  1. dynamical systems
  2. dynamical time
  3. dynamical times
  4. dynamicality
  5. dynamically
  6. dynamically-typed
  7. dynamicism
  8. dynamicisms
  9. dynamicist
  10. dynamicists
  11. dynamicities

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