Anders Wegge Keller <we...@wegge.dk> writes: > På Wed, 16 May 2018 14:48:27 +0100 > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
