prvalue

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /piːˈɑː.væl.juː/
(General American) IPA^(key): /piˈɑɹ.væl.ju/

Noun

prvalue (plural prvalues)

(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

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

Further reading

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

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