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Opaque data type

In computer science, an opaque data type is a data type whose concrete data structure is not defined in an interface. This enforces information hiding, since its values can only be manipulated by calling subroutines that have access to the missing information. The concrete representation of the type is hidden from its users, and the visible…

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Opaque data type

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Triples1
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
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Opaque data type → data type whose concrete data structure is not defined in an interface

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