second-class object

noun

Definitions

  1. An entity of which the value can be passed as a parameter, but that can neither be…

    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.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for second-class object. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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