object types, mutable or not?

[Ben Bacarisse]

Anders Wegge Keller <wegge at wegge.dk> writes:

> 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.

The terms are much older than that.  The first BCPL (1967) reference
manual uses the terms, and I don't think Martin Richards invented them.

(And C++ has added glvalue and prvalue to lvalue and rvalue.)

-- 
Ben.