[expr.delete] Specify value category of a delete-expression #7259
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I found it surprising that we don't specify the value category here but say:
http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.lval#1.2 generally makes any expression of type
void
a prvalue, so this change is editorial only.I believe it is a slight improvement because it reduces the reader's dependency on that general rule and makes the wording more conventional. We have the tendency to say "prvalue of type
void
" almost anywhere else, such as in https://eel.is/c++draft/expr.type.conv#2. For better or for worse, that's why I didn't even know about the blanket rule forvoid
up until recently.Perhaps in the long run, since almost any place specifies that
void
expressions are pvalues explicitly, we could even turn it into a note: