Updated Value Categories
Explore the updated value categories introduced in C++17 that clarify how expressions are classified as lvalue, xvalue, and prvalue. Understand their roles in assignment, move semantics, and expression identity to improve your grasp of modern C++ language behavior and performance.
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In C++98/03, we had two basic categories of expressions:
lvalue- an expression that can appear on the left-hand side of an assignmentrvalue- an expression that can appear only on the right-hand side of an assignment
C++11 extended this taxonomy (due to the move semantics), ...