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{{Short description|Related programming concepts of responsibility for actions}}
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In [[computing]] or [[computer programming]], '''delegation''' refers generally to one entity passing something to another entity,<ref>Barry Wilkinson, ''Grid Computing: Techniques and Applications'' (2009), p. 164, {{ISBN|1420069543}}.</ref> and narrowly to various specific forms of relationships. These include:
* [[Delegation (object-oriented programming)]], evaluating a member of one object (the receiver) in the context of another, original object (the sender).
** [[Delegation pattern]], a design pattern implementing this feature.
** [[Forwarding (object-oriented programming)]], an often-confused technique where a sending object uses the corresponding member of another object, without the receiving object having any knowledge of the original, sending object.
** [[Object aggregation]] or consultation, general term for one object using another.
* [[Delegation (computer security)]], one user or process allowing another user or process to use their credentials or permissions.
* [[Delegate (CLI)]], a form of type-safe function pointer used by the [[Common Language Infrastructure]] (CLI), specifying both a method to call and optionally an object to call the method on.

==See also==
*[[Delegation (disambiguation)]]

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