call by sharing

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Noun[edit]

call by sharing (uncountable)

  1. (programming) 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).
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