second-class objects

A form of second-class object — 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.)

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noun
  1. pluralplural of second-class object
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