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type-safe

type-safe adjective: not susceptible to the class of programming errors that could lead to items of one data type being incorrectly treated as another type.

Adjective

type-safe (comparative more type-safe, superlative most type-safe)

  1. Not susceptible to the class of programming errors that could lead to items of one data type being incorrectly treated as another type.
    • Narrow performs a type-safe conversion into an instance of a subclass.

Forms of type-safe

comparativemore type-safe
superlativemost type-safe

Questions about type-safe

What does type-safe mean?
Type-safe means not susceptible to the class of programming errors that could lead to items of one data type being incorrectly treated as another type.
What part of speech is type-safe?
Type-safe is an adjective.

Words near type-safe in the dictionary

  1. type-founder
  2. type-founders
  3. type-high
  4. type-in
  5. type-ins
  6. type-safe
  7. type-setting
  8. type-shifting
  9. type-site
  10. type-sites
  11. type-token distinction

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