safe typing

Property of a type system that prevents certain erroneous or undesirable program behaviours

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Also known as type soundness · type-safe · type safety typing · type safety system · type safety · safety typing

Subclass of: type system
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In computer science, type safety is the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors. Type-safe languages are sometimes also called strongly or strictly typed. The behaviors classified as type errors by a given programming language are usually those that result from attempts to perform operations on values that are not of the appropriate data type, e.g. trying to add a string to an integer.

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Short name: safety
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