Lvalues

Lecture 2 - Slide 10 : 29

Lvalues

An object is a contiguous region of storage - "something in memory"

An lvalue is an expression that refers to an object

Lvalues
- Named after expressions that can occur at the left-hand side of an assignment
- As such, lvalues are typically modifiable
- Constant lvalues do also occur in C++ (in the context of so-called const references, §5.5)

  var = 7;
  tab1[3] = 8;
  *(tab2 + 4) = 9;
  tab3[0].x = 2.0;