Gold Challenge
Time to step it up a notch. Add support for multiplication and division to your calculator. If you think this will be as easy as adding subtraction, think again! Your evaluator should give higher precedence to multiplication and division than it does for addition and subtraction. Here are some sample inputs and their expected output.
evaluate("10 * 3 + 5 * 3") // Should print 45
evaluate("10 + 3 * 5 + 3") // Should print 28
evaluate("10 + 3 * 5 * 3") // Should print 55
If you get stuck, try researching “recursive descent parsers.” That is the kind of parser you have been implementing. Here is a hint to get you started: instead of parsing a single number and then expecting a .Plus or .Minus, try parsing a term computed ...
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