Public Comment Number PC-UK0036 ISO/IEC CD 9899 (SC22N2620) Public Comment =========================================== Date: 1998-01-13 Author: Clive D.W. Feather Author Affiliation: Self Postal Address: Demon Internet Limited 322 Regents Park Road London N3 2QQ United Kingdom E-mail Address: Telephone Number: +44 181 371 1138 Fax Number: +44 181 371 1037 Number of individual comments: 1 Comment 1. Category: Normative change where the intent is unclear Committee Draft subsection: 6.3.16 Title: Define the result of the assignment operator Detailed description: 6.3.16p3 states: An assignment expression has the value of the left operand after the assignment, but is not an lvalue. It is not clear what this means when the left operand is a volatile object that changes through external causes - it could mean the value stored, or it could mean the result of reading the object. Replace these words with the unambiguous: The value of the assignment expression is the value stored in the left operand, but is not an lvalue.