prvalue

English

Etymology

Short for pure rvalue. According to Bjarne Stroustrup, coined by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 in 2010.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

prvalue (plural prvalues)

  1. (programming) An rvalue that is not an xvalue.

Quotations

  • 2020, Roger Villela, “Working with Lvalue and Rvalue References”, in Introducing Mechanisms and APIs for Memory Management: Using Windows OS Native Runtime APIs, Apress, →DOI, →ISBN, page 158:
    If the expression is categorized as an rvalue, the next evaluation can categorize it as a prvalue or xvalue.

References

  1. ^ Stroustrup, Bjarne (April 2010) “"New" Value Terminology”, in stroustrup.com‎[1]

Further reading

  • Miller, William M. (12 March 2010) “A Taxonomy of Expression Value Categories”, in C++ Standards Committee Papers‎[2]
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