prvalue

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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.

Further reading

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