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- Subject: Re: Macro Names in 5.3w2
- From: Coroutines <coroutines@...>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:05:04 -0700
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Overloading "rvalue" to mean "real value" might cause some semantic
> dissonance in those reading the code.
Yes, if I saw setrvalue() I might think it had something related to
rvalues and lvalues, not "real" numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(computer_science)
>From what I understand (and this has always been confusing to me) --
rvalues are values that you cannot get the address of, because the
final, computed value has not yet been stored anywhere. I'd think of
rvalues in C; sorry I wasn't more specific