7EXPRESSIONS
Here is the essence of mankind’s creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum.—Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Expressions are computations that produce results and side effects. Generally, expressions contain operands and operators that do work on them. A number of operators are baked into the core language, and you’ll see a majority of them in this chapter. The chapter begins with a discussion of built-in operators before moving on to discuss the overloading operator new and user-defined literals and then diving ...
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