first class module

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

first class module

   <programming> A {module} that is a {first class data object}
   of the {programming language}, e.g. a {record} containing
   {functions}.  In a {functional language}, it is standard to
   have first class programs, so program building blocks can have
   the same status.

   Claus Reinke's Virtual Bookshelf
   (http://informatik.uni-kiel.de/~cr/bib/bookshelf/Modules.html).

   (2004-01-26)