First-class citizen
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In programming language design, a first-class citizen (also object, entity, or value) in a given programming language is an entity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities.
Description
These operations typically include being passed as a parameter, returned from a function, and assigned to a variable.
See also
- Computer program
- Computer programming
- Computer science
- First-class function
- Function_(mathematics)
- Programming language
- Subroutine
External links
- First-class citizen @ Wikipedia
