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From: andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: What is an lvalue (was Re: "chip" in SAS C)
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Date: 24 Jan 91 06:56:33 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.040641.5245@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan9.152057.9968@ericsson.se> <22566@well.sf.ca.us>
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In article <22566@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:
>etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>... an "lvalue" is
>simply the value on the Left side of an assignment.

An lvalue can occur in other places such as is required by & (address of).

But that has always been my "working" definition of an lvalue -
anything that can appear on the left side of an assignment.
-- 
Andrew Phillips (andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au) Phone +61 (Aust) 2 (Sydney) 289 8712