Appendix B
Value Categories
Expressions are a cornerstone of the C++ language, providing the primary mechanism by which it can express computations. Every expression has a type, which describes the static type of the value that its computation produces. The expression 7 has type int, as does the expression 5 + 2, and the expression x if x is a variable of type int. Each expression also has a value category, which describes something about how the value was formed and affects how the expression behaves.
B.1 Traditional Lvalues and Rvalues
Historically, there were only two value categories: lvalues and rvalues. Lvalues are expressions that refer to actual values stored in memory or in a machine register, such as the expression x where x is the ...
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