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In computer science, type safety is the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors. Type-safe languages are sometimes also called strongly or strictly typed. The behaviors classified as type errors by a given programming language are usually those that result from attempts to perform operations on values that are not of the appropriate data type, e.g. trying to add a string to an integer. Read more on Wikipedia

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