intyget

Intyget is a term that appears primarily in informal programming discussions and niche literature to describe a data access concept that combines retrieval with integer-valued results. It is not a standardized term and has no official specification. The word is likely a portmanteau of int (short for integer) and get, reflecting its association with fetching numeric values. Because of its informal status, meanings vary by author.

In programming usage, intyget can denote a function or method intended to return an integer. Such a function may enforce type checks, throw an error if the underlying value is not an integer, or coerce values to integers under certain rules. The concept is often used to illustrate type-safe accessors or to discuss how numeric data should be obtained through controlled interfaces rather than direct field reads.

In other contexts, intyget may appear as a project name, a module label, or a dataset identifier in examples. Since the term is informal, exact definitions differ across tutorials and code comments.

For example, a function intyget(obj, key) might return the integer value associated with key, or a default if the key is missing or non-numeric.

See also: getter, accessor, type safety, integer, data retrieval.