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C++ Primer, Fifth Edition
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C++ Primer, Fifth Edition

by Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
30h 17m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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4.1.2. Precedence and Associativity

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An expression with two or more operators is a compound expression. Evaluating a compound expression involves grouping the operands to the operators. Precedence and associativity determine how the operands are grouped. That is, they determine which parts of the expression are the operands for each of the operators in the expression. Programmers can override these rules by parenthesizing compound expressions to force a particular grouping.

In general, the value of an expression depends on how the subexpressions are grouped. Operands of operators with higher precedence group more tightly than operands of operators ...

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