Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

© Slobodan Dmitrović 2021

S. DmitrovićModern C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6643-4_6

6. Expressions

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

What is an expression? An expression can be operators and operands grouped to perform some calculations and yield a result. There are different kinds of expressions. There are arithmetic expressions, as in x + y; comparison expressions, as in x > y; assignment expressions, as in x = y; and logical expressions such as x && y.

An expression can consist of multiple sub-expressions, as in z = x + y. Here the x + y can be treated as an arithmetic sub-expression inside the assignment expression.

The entire expression is of a particular type. What that type is depends on the nature of the ...