"first-class object" meaning in English

See first-class object in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: first-class object, first-class object, first-class objects
Etymology: : first-class object < → δείτε τις λέξεις first-class και object
  1. αντικείμενο πρώτης τάξης
    Sense id: el-first-class_object-en-noun-rcy0GrmL Categories (other): Προγραμματισμός (αγγλικά)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: first-class citizen, first-class entity, first-class type, first-class value
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          "text": "Guido van Rossum wrote: \"One of my goals for Python was to make it so that all objects were first class. By this, I meant that I wanted all objects that could be named in the language (e.g., integers, strings, functions, classes, modules, methods, and so on) to have equal status."
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