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NOUR A ALGHAMDI
Courses Plus Student 5,607 Pointswhy the binary operations have to be organised ?
i mean why the programming language does not calculate the binary operations as what we write ? why it has to start with multiplication and end with addition or subtraction ?
1 Answer
Martin Wildfeuer
Courses Plus Student 11,071 PointsOperator precedence or Order of Operations is a common mathematical concept that applies internationally. Swift and almost all other programming languages adhere to it. You can read more about it here.
1 + 2 * 3 = ?
If you hand someone a note with this task, she or he will come to the result 7, as they learned in school "multiplication and division first, then addition and subtraction".
So, in a nutshell, Swift just follows rules that have always applied. Everything else would be much more confusing, so we better stick to this standard.
NOUR A ALGHAMDI
Courses Plus Student 5,607 PointsNOUR A ALGHAMDI
Courses Plus Student 5,607 Pointsyes , thank you :)