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typechecker

noun

Etymology

From type + checker.

  1. derived from scaccarium
  2. derived from escheker
  3. inherited from cheker
  4. compounded as typechecker — “type + checker”

Definitions

  1. A system or algorithm that verifies values against their required data types, according…

    A system or algorithm that verifies values against their required data types, according to the type system of the language.

    • The catch is that to get the full benefits of the type checker, the programmers have to add complex annotations to their code.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for typechecker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA