typeclass
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
typeclass (plural typeclasses)
- Alternative spelling of type class
- 2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 23, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima, →ISBN:
- As mentioned in Section 21.4, typeclasses support ad hoc polymorphism, which means that functions can be used with a particular, enumerated set of types.
Usage notes edit
Sometimes used to avoid confusion with the more general class concept in object-oriented programming.