Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Operator Precedence and Associativity

Figure 4.16 shows the precedence and associativity of the operators we’ve introduced. They’re shown from top to bottom in decreasing order of precedence. The second column describes the associativity of the operators at each level of precedence. The conditional operator (?:); the unary operators increment (++), decrement (--), plus (+) and minus (-); the cast operators and the assignment operators =, +=, -=, *=, /= and %= associate from right to left. All the other operators in the operator precedence chart in Fig. 4.16 associate from left to right. The third column lists the type of each group of operators.

Fig. 4.16 | Precedence and associativity of the operators discussed so far.

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