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L-values, r-values, expressions and types

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Simple question: Why does this code compile?

…and this code doesn’t?

The compiler gives the following:

L-values

What is this ‘l-value’ thing? When (most of us) were taught C we were told an l-value is a value that can be placed on the left-hand-side of an assignment expression. However, that doesn’t give much of a clue as to what might constitute an l-value; so most of the time we resort to guessing and trial-and-error.

Basically, an l-value is a named object; which may be modifiable […]

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