Right Value

The Wiki name for an R-value.

A term coined by ChristopherStrachey in his 1967 paper entitled FundamentalConceptsInProgrammingLanguages. A RightValue is a value that can be stored in a LeftValue.

It is so called because it makes up the right hand side of an assignment expression. For example, in Pascal-like syntax:

 lvalue := rvalue

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The paper is available online at http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=257993.

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