type system
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.09 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A way programming language classifies values and expressions into types (data types), how it can manipulate those types, and how they interact.
Example Sentences
- "Meronyms: types, data types; built-in type, primitive type, composite type, abstract type, abstract data type, algebraic data type, reference type, existential type, intersection type, linear type, union type"
- "OCaml’s big selling point is its “type system,” which is something like Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, except that instead of just putting a squiggly green line underneath code it thinks is wrong, it won’t let you run it."