Wiktionary
call-by-reference
alt. (context: programming) An http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function. n. (context: programming) An http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function.