type-safe

adj

type-safe

adj
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences 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.

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