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What does improved type-safety means?

Josh Lee
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John
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    You're going to have to give us some context here - are you quoting from somewhere? Improved compared to what? – AakashM Oct 19 '10 at 20:25
  • possible duplicate of [What is Type-safe?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260626/what-is-type-safe) ...and/or a couple more posts listed in the _Related_ section on the right. – Péter Török Oct 19 '10 at 20:30

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Definition of type safety from Wikipedia:

In computer science, type safety is the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors. A type error is erroneous or undesirable program behaviour caused by a discrepancy between differing data types.

E.G. if you can write a program where you treat a string like a number then you have low (or no) type safety.

Now apply this to the context from which you read/heard the 'improved type safety' phrase. In relation to the definition above 'improved' means 'to a greater extent'.

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