object types, mutable or not?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu May 17 05:28:44 EDT 2018


On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Anders Wegge Keller <wegge at wegge.dk> wrote:
> På Wed, 16 May 2018 14:48:27 +0100
> Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> skrev:
>
>> C++ called that an "rvalue". And then went on to define things that
>> could go on the left hand side of an assignment as "lvalues". And now
>> we have two confusing concepts to explain - see what happens when you
>> let a standards committee define your language? :-)
>
>  I'm not sure the C++ committee has to bear the responsibility for those
> terms. They are pretty well defined in the C world, so I think you need to
> point the finger of accusation at either Brian or Dennis.
>

Let's be fair and blame one of them for each.

ChrisA



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