second-class object

second-class object (plural second-class objects)

1. (programming, languages) 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.)

• second-class citizen
• second-class entity
• second-class value

• first-class object
• third-class object