Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 13/09/2024 00:46, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
 

On 12/09/2024 00:47, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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On 11/09/2024 01:02, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

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Sorry, did your remark above suggest I don't know what an lvalue is?

That seemed like the obvious explanation for the incorrect information
you gave.  Did you post it /knowing/ what other kinds of things are
lvalues in C just to confuse people?

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Which incorrect explanation was that?
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I merely said that LHSs of assigments fall into these categories:
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     A = Y;         // name
     *X = Y;        // pointer
     X[i] = Y;      // index
     X.m = Y;       // member select

Yes, that incorrect explanation.

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I dispute that. What I said is very broadly correct. But in this newgroup
you do like to nitpick.

 Someone who wants to write p->m = 42 would not consider it nitpicking if
your compiler did not accept that form of LHS.
 But I agree I was simply correcting a small error.

It didn't seem like it. You keep saying things like this:
 > Is there no part of C you can't misrepresent?
And (see above):
 > Yes, that incorrect explanation.
Suggesting it was completely wrong rather than there being some corner cases that might have been included too.
You'd have a point if I was writing some treatise on C and this was supposed to be a comprehensive list of all lvalue terms.
The context was that I was pointing out the simpler kinds of LHSs that C allows, compared with other languages where you could do stuff like this:
   IF c THEN a ELSE b FI := x
which was exactly what was being queried.