Chapter 5. Expressions and Operators

In This Chapter

• What Are Expressions? 247

• The Evaluation Stack 251

• Arithmetic Operators 255

• String Concatenation 266

• Shift Operators 270

• Relational Operators 271

• Logical Operators 273

• Conditional Operators 278

• An Operator’s Result Type 281

• Null-Coalescing Operator 282

• Assignment 285

Continuing our journey through language essentials, we’ve arrived at the point where we focus on blocks of code. One thing we need is the ability to compute values based on existing ones, using expressions. Besides this, there’s a need for control flow structures, sequencing of instructions, and so on, which is provided through statements. In this chapter, we start by looking at expressions. In the next ...

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