Associativity and precedence determine in which order Java groups operands and operators, but it does not determine in which order the operands are evaluated. In Java, the operands of an operator are ...

During evaluation, operators with the same precedence level (such as addition and subtraction) are processed according to their associativity, meaning how operators having the same precedence are ...

Back in high school I wanted to write a simple parser for arithmetic expressions in Java. Java applets seemed like a good idea at the time and we didn't know any better. I also didn't know what the ...