lvalue - definition

Today I found very interesting definition of lvalue in C++. According to this site:

An lvalue is an expression that refers to a memory location and allows us to take the address of that memory location via the & operator. An rvalue is an expression that is not an lvalue.

Examples are:

  // lvalues:
  //
  int i = 42;
  i = 43; // ok, i is an lvalue
  int* p = &i; // ok, i is an lvalue
  int& foo();
  foo() = 42; // ok, foo() is an lvalue
  int* p1 = &foo(); // ok, foo() is an lvalue

  // rvalues:
  //
  int foobar();
  int j = 0;
  j = foobar(); // ok, foobar() is an rvalue
  int* p2 = &foobar(); // error, cannot take the address of an rvalue
  j = 42; // ok, 42 is an rvalue

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