Operator Precedence

Operators are listed from highest precedence (evaluated first) to lowest.

Level Operators Description Associativity
1 () . [] x++ x-- Call, access, postfix inc/dec Left
2 ++x --x -x Prefix inc/dec, negate Right
3 * / % Multiplicative Left
4 + - Additive Left
5 < <= > >= Relational Left
6 == != Equality Left
7 is is not Type checking -
8 not Logical NOT Right
9 and Logical AND (short-circuit) Left
10 or Logical OR (short-circuit) Left
11 ?? Null coalescing Right
12 ? : Ternary conditional Right

Assignment operators (=, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=) are statements, not expressions, and do not participate in the precedence table.


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