I was looking through C++17 for the formal definition of what the term "variable" means and all could find was in section 6:
A variable is introduced by the declaration of a reference other than a non-static data member or of an object. The variable’s name, if any, denotes the reference or object.
Since I was expecting something more along the lines of "A variable is...", I searched the Internet and found several different definitions. The one that seemed to most closely fit what the standard appears to be saying was something like,
"A variable is an object paired with an identifier (if any)."
If that is a correct rewording and if the declaration int x; is assumed, it seems that it would be technically incorrect (but maybe colloquially correct) to simply state that "x is a variable".
Are my interpretations/conclusions correct? When writing documentation for beginning programmers I typically get hung up on the semantics of such things because, while I want my documents to be correct, I don't want to confuse beginners with materials that read like the standards :-)
