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msarnoff on Dec 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understanding lvalues and rvalues in C and C++

Interesting C++ tidbit: the ternary operator can yield an lvalue, like so:

  int foo = 0, bar = 0;
  (cond ? foo : bar) = 8;

This doesn't work in plain C.

koenigdavidmj on Dec 15, 2011 [–]

But it does with pointers in C:

  int foo = 0, bar = 0;
  *(cond ? &foo : &bar) = 8;

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