Voldemort type

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English

Etymology

Named after the villain Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter novels, who is typically called "He Who Must Not Be Named" or "You-Know-Who" by other characters.

Noun

Voldemort type (plural Voldemort types)

  1. (programming) A data type that is unspeakable.
    • 2012 May 7, Walter Bright, “Voldemort Types In D”, in Dr Dobb's:
      RandomNumberGenerator becomes a type that is inside generator's scope. It is simply not visible outside of generator. It cannot be named — hence it's a Voldemort Type.
    • 2016 May 23, Steve Schveighoffer, “Have your Voldemort types, and keep your disk space too!”, in Steve Schveighoffer's Blog:
      A recent issue I discovered (and no doubt has been encountered before) is that using Voldemort types in D can result in insane symbol bloat.

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