third-class object

third-class object (plural third-class objects)

1. (programming, languages) An entity of which the value can neither be passed as a parameter, nor be returned from a function, nor assigned to a variable. (According to the usage by Raphael Finkel, the first-class object does not need to have run-time constructability.)

• third-class citizen
• third-class entity
• third-class value

• first-class object
• second-class object