second-class object (English, noun)
expansion: second-class object (plural second-class objects)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: languages
glosses: 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.)
Forms:
form: second-class objects
tags: plural