English Explanatory Dictionary

call-by-reference

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function.

Word forms

call-by-reference call by reference

Synonyms

pass-by-reference

Antonyms

call-by-value

Related words

call-by-future call-by-name call-by-need call by sharing
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