SUBTYPE


Meaning of SUBTYPE in English

< programming > If S is a subtype of T then an expression of type S may be used anywhere that one of type T can and an implicit type conversion will be applied to convert it to type T.

In object oriented programming , this means that objects of type S must accept every message that one of type T would.

(1997-07-28)

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