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stringly-typed

The English word “stringly-typed” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Characterized by an excessive use of strings to represent non-textual data.
  2. Relying on strings to encode or represent structured or semantic data that could otherwise use more appropriate data structures.

Etymology

From the string data type, punning on strongly-typed.

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