Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

re: Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

John Wilson — Wed, 12 May 2004 17:32:00 GMT

When the OED was started, the purpose was to create a <b>complete</b> dictionary of the english language. And how can you have a complete dictionary if you leave out words that you don't like? You can't even have a complete dictionary if you have all of the words but leave out alternate meanings or usages of certain words.

I think the OED should stay true to the task of being a complete dictionary and history of the english language. Society changes too much over time, so I think it's useless to try to pin the language of society down. But if you want to compare approaches, the main french language "standards body" definitely takes a "leading" approach.

For more detail check out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OED
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%E9mie_fran%E7aise

re: Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

AndrewSeven — Wed, 12 May 2004 19:55:00 GMT

The OED was and still is the definition of English.

One of the great things about our language is that is is alive; to represent the language the OED must also be alive.

OED continues to cover the language, noting the things that are added, usualy including when and why.

Slang and vernacular terms are usualy identified as such.

Adding to an API is ok, changing the meaning of an existing method isn't.

Using the wrong thing, be it an API or a word, is bad.

re: Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

chadr — Wed, 12 May 2004 22:31:00 GMT

John makes an execellent reference on how the OED follows English and the Academie Francaise leads French. Ignorance is bliss. Well, it was.

Following Andrew's observation on the behavior of the OED, I presume I would find a set of asterisks on these slang words so that I would know, always, when I was straying from the Queen's English.

re: Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

Saurabh Jain — Thu, 13 May 2004 08:39:00 GMT

You won't find asterisks but you would find "slang" in the description e.g. http://www.oed.com/help/worksheets/leeds.html#8.0).

re: Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

Heather — Thu, 13 May 2004 19:07:00 GMT

OK, to be fair, I actually posted mine first....why am I not happy being an rvalue?

re: Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

chadr — Fri, 14 May 2004 23:38:00 GMT

Heather, my descriptions of lvalue and rvalue were confusing. You're an rvalue, it means you have the real meaning and someone else copies it. You were first, and I meant to indicate that! It's best, really :-)

re: Are you an lvalue or an rvalue?

Heather — Tue, 18 May 2004 01:11:00 GMT

OK Chad...I'm sure that rvalue and lvalue have more meaning to tech folks, which obviously isn't me; )

For some reason, I feel like I keep proving to people how not technical I am.

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