C++03 3.10/1 says: “Every expression is either an lvalue or an rvalue.” It’s important to remember that lvalueness versus rvalueness is a property of expressions, not of objects.
Lvalues name objects that persist beyond a single expression. For example, obj , *ptr , ptr[index] , and ++x are all lvalues.
Rvalues are temporaries that evaporate at the end of the full-expression in which they live (“at the semicolon”). For example, 1729 , x + y , std::string("meow") , and x++ are all rvalues.
The address-of operator requires that its “operand shall be an lvalue”. if we could take the address of one expression, the expression is an lvalue, otherwise it’s an rvalue.
&obj; // valid &12; //invalid
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