third-class object

English

Noun

third-class object (plural third-class objects)

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

Synonyms

• third-class citizen
• third-class entity
• third-class value

Related terms

• first-class object
• second-class object

Translations

Translations

• German: Third-Class-Objekt n
• Turkish: üçüncü sınıf nesne