autoboxed

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ boxed.

Adjective

autoboxed (not comparable)

1. (object-oriented programming) Automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).
   • 2006, Christian Gross, How to code .NET, page 38:

     The error indicates that we cannot typecast and modify data of an autoboxed variable.

   • 2006, David D. Riley, The object of Java, page 484:

     In the second statement the value 85.1 is autoboxed in order to conform to the type of Double.

Related terms

• autoboxing

Translations

in object-oriented programming