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ZBasic Language Reference 26 ZX Microcontroller Family BasicX Compatibility Note In BasicX mode, a different operator precedence set is used, as shown in the table below, in order to be compatible with BasicX. Operator Precedence Precedence Level Operators 5 (highest) ^ 4 +(unary) -(unary) 3 Not 2 * / \ Mod And 1 + - Or Xor & 0 (lowest) = < > <= >= <> 2.4.2 Operator Associativity After studying the precedence table in the preceding section, the obvious question would be what happens when two operators have the same precedence? b = b - 5 + 3 In case of equal precedence, the operators are applied in the order dictated by the associativity of the operator. Except for the exponentiation operator, all operators in ZBasic are left associative. This means that given equal precedence operators they are applied in left to right order. Exponentiation is right associative meaning that they will be applied in right to left order. However, no matter what the precedence levels are you can force the operators to be applied in any order that you wish by utilizing parentheses. Consider the two examples below. b = (b – 5) + 3 b = b – (5 + 3) The parentheses indicate that the expression within should be evaluated first after which the result may be used as an operand in another operation. 2.4.3 Arithmetic Operators The arithmetic operators are listed in the table below along with the permitted operand types. The result is the same type as the operands. Arithmetic Operators Function Type Operator Permitted Operand Types Negation Unary - any numeric Addition Binary + any numeric Subtraction Binary - any numeric Multiplication Binary * any numeric¹ Division, Integer Binary \ any integral¹ Division, Real Binary / Single Modulus Binary Mod any numeric¹ Exponentiation Binary ^ any numeric² Notes: ¹ In BasicX mode, operating on UnsignedLong is not supported. ² The result will be the same type as the left operand. In BasicX mode, the left operand must be Single and the right operand must be either Single or Integer.