Groovy in Action

Appendix B. Groovy language info

Table B.1 lists all the Groovy operators in order of their precedence. Most of these operators can be overridden. See the respective method names and usages in section 3.3, table 3.4.

Table B.1. Groovy operators in order of precedence

Level	Operator	Note
1	$x new () () {} [] . ?. *. ~ ! $ (type)	Scope escape Explicit parentheses Method call, closure, list/map Dot, safe dereferencing, spread-dot Negate, not, typecast
2	**	Power
3	++ -- + -	Pre/post increment/decrement, unary sign
4	* / %	Multiply, div, modulo
5	+ -	Binary
6	<< >> >>> .. ..<	Shift, range
7	< <= > >= instanceof as
8	== != <=>
9	&	Binary and
10	^	Binary xor
11	|	Binary or
12	&&	Logical and
13	||	Logical or
14	?:	Ternary conditional
15	= **= *= /= %= += -= <<= >>= >>>= &= ^= |=	Assignments

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