call by sharing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An evaluation strategy where arguments passed to a function can be mutated in a way that is visible to the caller (unlike call-by-value) but access is not given to the specific variables passed as arguments (unlike call-by-reference).

Word forms

call by sharing
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