call-by-reference
Noun. An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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