Derived type
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In computer science
, derived type can mean:
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, derived type can mean:
- a composite data type, one built out of other types
- a subtypeSubtypeIn programming language theory, subtyping or subtype polymorphism is a form of type polymorphism in which a subtype is a datatype that is related to another datatype by some notion of substitutability, meaning that program constructs, typically subroutines or functions, written to operate on...
or derived class