forward declaration (English, noun)
expansion: forward declaration (countable and uncountable, plural forward declarations)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The declaration of an identifier before it is given a complete definition, so that the compiler can know its data type and memory size.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: forward declarations
tags: plural