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.
    • 2010 March 12, William M. Miller, “A Taxonomy of Expression Value Categories”, in C++ Standards Committee Papers‎[2], page 3:
      Together, prvalues and xvalues are called “rvalues,” reflecting the use of that term in the library clauses and the intended uses in reference binding, overload resolution, and template argument deduction.
    • 2010 April, Bjarne Stroustrup, “"New" Value Terminology”, in stroustrup.com‎[3], page 4:
      In Pittsburgh (and a few places later), I had the opportunity to explain this terminology to several people. It can be done in a few minutes. I think it has prvalue (Groan!).
    • 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[4]
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