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second-class objects

second-class objects is the plural of second-class object.

Meaning of second-class object

Noun

second-class object (plural second-class objects)

  1. (languages) An entity of which the value can be passed as a parameter, but that can neither be returned from a function, nor be assigned to a variable. (Used by Raphael Finkel, the first-class object does not need to have run-time constructability according to his definition.)

Questions about second-class objects

What is second-class objects the plural of?
Second-class objects is the plural of second-class object.

Words near second-class objects in the dictionary

  1. second-class continuation
  2. second-class continuations
  3. second-class entities
  4. second-class entity
  5. second-class object
  6. second-class objects
  7. second-class value
  8. second-class values
  9. second-countable
  10. second-degree
  11. second-degree burn

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