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lolinder12/09/20240 repliesview on HN

That is a possible definition for strongly typed, yes. It is not widespread or generally agreed upon—you'll see plenty of people use them in ways that contradict your definitions, and you won't see any serious work attempting to define them at all. Even Wikipedia doesn't [0]:

> However, there is no precise technical definition of what the terms mean and different authors disagree about the implied meaning of the terms and the relative rankings of the "strength" of the type systems of mainstream programming languages. For this reason, writers who wish to write unambiguously about type systems often eschew the terms "strong typing" and "weak typing" in favor of specific expressions such as "type safety".

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing