Regarding programming languages, operators are constructs which behave generally like functions, but which differ syntactically or semantically from usual functions. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_%28programming%29
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What are bit operators good for? [closed]
Programming languages often come with various bit operators (e.g. bitwise left- and right shift, bitwise AND, OR, XOR...). These don't get used though very much, or at least such has my experience ...
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Ternary operator considered harmful? [closed]
For example, would you prefer this one-liner
int median(int a, int b, int c) {
return (a<b) ? (b<c) ? b : (a<c) ? c : a : (a<c) ? a : (b<c) ? c : b;
}
or an if/else solution ...
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Specifics of Switch and If statements
Why do we need the switch statement if there is the if statement? Why can't we use several ifs like
if(a==1) do this1;
if(a==2) do this2;
...
instead of
switch (a) {
case(1): {do ...
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Languages supporting unicode logic operators
Are there any programming languages that support the use of unicode logic operators? For example, many programming languages use "!=" as the "does not equal"
operator, but in mathematics the symbol ...
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How useful are infix operators in a programming language?
How useful are infix operators in a programming language? Are they worth the extra complexity they provide? Can you provide any examples where infix operators are better suited to the problem that ...
