December 2009
Intermediate to advanced
1170 pages
28h 4m
English
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Appendix B. Java Operator Summary
The Java operators are listed in groups of decreasing precedence in the table below. The horizontal lines in the table indicate a change in operator precedence. For example, z = x - y; means z = (x - y); because = has lower precedence than -.
The prefix unary operators, conditional operator, and the assignment operators associate right-to-left. All other operators associate left-to-right.
Operator | Description | Associativity |
|---|---|---|
| Access class feature | |
| Array subscript | Left to right |
| Function call | |
| Increment | |
| Decrement | |
| Boolean not | |
| Bitwise not | Right to left |
| (Has no effect) | |
| Negative | |
| Cast | |
| Object allocation | |
| Multiplication | |
| Division or integer division | Left to right |
| Integer remainder | |
| Addition, string concatenation | |
| Subtraction | Left to right |
| Shift left | |
| Right shift with sign extension | Left to right |
| Right shift with zero extension | |
| Less than | |
| Less than or equal | |
| Greater than | Left to right |
| Greater than or equal | |
| Tests whether an object's type is a given type or a subtype thereof | |
| Equal | Left to right |
| Not equal | |
| Bitwise and | Left to right |
| Bitwise exclusive or | Left to right |
| Bitwise or | Left to right |
| Boolean "short circuit" and | Left to right |
| Boolean "short circuit" or | Left to right |
| Conditional | Right to left |
| Assignment | |
op | Assignment with binary operator (op is one of | Right to left |
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