type erasure

== English == === Noun === type erasure (countable and uncountable, plural type erasures) (software) A compile-time process by which explicit data type annotations are removed from a program, before run-time execution. (C++ programming) A technique by which a class is made generic without requiring compile-time template arguments. ==== Hyponyms ==== erasure ==== Coordinate terms ==== reification type inference === Further reading === type erasure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia