type-safe

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See also: typesafe

English

Adjective

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

  1. (programming) 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.