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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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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.

> A is a simple variable;

C does not define the term "simple variable" so presumably you define it
to be any named object that /can/ appear on the LHS of a simple
assignment -- a sort of "no true Scots-variable".

> X represents a term of any complexity, and Y is any
> expression.

I can think of at least one expression form for X that contradicts this
claim.

It would be great if C had simple rules, but it doesn't.  You could have
started by saying something about the most comment forms of assignment
being those you list, and that X can be almost any term, but the risk of
making absolute claims is that people (like me) will look into them.

> (In C, the middle two are really the same thing.)

-- 
Ben.