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

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 08/09/2024 17:44, Bart wrote:

On 08/09/2024 16:39, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>

In language like C, the LHS of an assignment is one of four categories:
>
   A = Y;         // name
   *X = Y;        // pointer
   X[i] = Y;      // index
   X.m = Y;       // member select

>
I can think of three others.  There may be more.

OK, so what are they?

>
TM:

Yes, very good.  I count four or five, depending on what

differences count as different.
>
I guess nobody is going to say what those extra categories are, are they?

The LHS of an assignment must be a modifiable lvalue.  Searching for the
word "lvalue" in the standard's section on expressions yields several
forms not listed above:

- A parenthesized lvalue:
  (A) = Y;

- A generic selection whose result expression is an lvalue:
  _Generic(0, int: A) = Y;
  Not sure why you'd do this.

- X->m, where X is a pointer (you might think of that as the same
  category as X.m, but the standard doesn't define the -> operator in
  terms of the . operator)

- A compound literal:
  int n;
  (int){n} = 42;

  This assigns a value to a temporary object which is immediately
  discarded.  I can't think of a valid use for this.

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