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First-class citizen

In a given programming language design, a first-class citizen is an entity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities. These operations typically include being passed as an argument, returned from a function, and assigned to a variable.

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First-class citizen

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples1
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
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First-class citizen

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First-class citizen → entity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities

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first-class objects languages language function programming functions variable reflection call parameters data passed assigned operations algol classes also procedures first

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First-class citizenis aentity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities0.90text

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