On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:28:44PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Anders Wegge Keller <we...@wegge.dk> wrote: > > P?? Wed, 16 May 2018 14:48:27 +0100 > > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> skrev: > > > >> C++ called that an "rvalue". And then went on to define things that > >> could go on the left hand side of an assignment as "lvalues". And now > >> we have two confusing concepts to explain - see what happens when you > >> let a standards committee define your language? :-) > > > > I'm not sure the C++ committee has to bear the responsibility for those > > terms. They are pretty well defined in the C world, so I think you need to > > point the finger of accusation at either Brian or Dennis. > > > > Let's be fair and blame one of them for each. >
Let's be fair and make that accolades. We stand on their shoulders. I like telling a computer what to do. Don't you? Enjoy, Mike -- Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. - Albert Einstein -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list