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Keith Thompson writes:
> Bart writes:
> [...]
>
>> By "access A's value" I mean either read or write access.
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> Write access does not access the value of an object. [...]
Bart is explaining what he means by the phrase. There is nothing
wrong with pointing out that the C standard doesn't use that
phrase with the same meaning, but that doesn't make what Bart
said wrong, especially since he is comparing semantics in two
different languages.