On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 07:56:10PM +0000, Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] > My problem with the terms lvalue and rvalue is much more basic, and is > just a personal one that only affects probably 0.1% of people. I just > can't keep left vs. right straight in real life. "Right" in my head > always means "correct". > > My daughter hates it when I'm telling her which way to turn the car > since I've said the wrong direction so many times. :)
I also suffer from left/right confusion, and always have to pause to think about which is the right(!) word before uttering it. :-D Would compass directions be more helpful? (wvalue vs. evalue) Or would it suffer from the same problem? (One could retroactively rationalize it as *w*ritable value vs. *e*phemeral value. :-P) T -- By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. -- D. Knuth
