Assignment Ops and Side Effects

[P E Smee]

In article <1991Apr3.173046.2367 at mccc.edu> pjh at mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>How does the standard describe the situation where, for example,
>	x++ *= y;
>is treated as if it were
>	x++ = x * y;
>and not
>	x++ = x++ * y;

The quick answer is that x++ is (explicitly) not an lvalue, and so
cannot appear on the left-hand side of an assignment operator.

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