Operators Precedence in Scala

An operator is a symbol that represents an operation to be performed with one or more operand. Operators are the foundation of any programming language. Which operator is performed first in an expression with more than one operators with different precedence is determined by operator precedence. For example, 10 + 20 * 30 is calculated as 10 + (20 * 30) and not as (10 + 20) * 30. when two operators of the same precedence appear in expression associativity is used. Associativity can be Right to Left or Left to Right. For example ‘*’ and ‘/’ have the same precedence and their associativity is Left to Right, so the expression “100 / 10 * 10” is worked as “(100 / 10) * 10”. In below table operators with the highest precedence appear at the top of the table and operators with the lowest precedence appear at the bottom.

Operator	Category	Associativity
()[]	Postfix	Left to Right
! ~	Unary	Right to Left
* / %	Multiplicative	Left to Right
+ -	Additive	Left to Right
>> >>> <<	Shift	Left to Right
< <= > >=	Relational	Left to Right
== !=	Relational is equal to/is not equal to	Left to Right
== !=	Equality	Left to Right
&	Bitwise AND	Left to Right
^	Bitwise exclusive OR	Left to Right
|	Bitwise inclusive OR	Left to Right
&&	Logical AND	Left to Right
| |	Logical OR	Left to Right
= += -= *= /= %= >>= <<= &= ^= |=	Assignment	Right to left
,	Comma (separate expressions)	Left to Right

Below is the example of operator Precedence. Example : Scala

// Scala program to show Operators Precedence // Creating object object gfg {  // Main method  def main(args: Array[String])  {    var a:Int = 20;  var b:Int = 10;  var c:Int = 15;  var d:Int = 5;  var e = 0    // operators with the highest precedence  // will operate first  e = a + b * c / d;     /* step 1: 20 + (10 * 15) /5  step 2: 20 + (150 /5)  step 3:(20 + 30)*/    println("Value of a + b * c / d is : " + e )    } } 

Output:

Value of a + b * c / d is : 50

In above example e = a + b * c / d; here, e is assigned 50, not 120 because operator * has a higher precedence than / than +, so it first gets multiplied with 10 * 15, then divide by 5 and then add into 20.