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System Debug Reference Manual

Operator Precedence 

The precedence ranking of an operator determines the order in which it is
evaluated in an expression.  The levels of ranking are:

                Precedence                                   Operators 

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                  highest                   [ ]

                     .                      NOT, BNOT

                     .                      <<, >>, BAND, BOR

                     .                      *, /, MOD, AND

                     .                      +, -, OR

                  lowest                    <, <=, =, >, >=, <>

Operators of highest precedence are evaluated first.  For example, since
* ranks above +, the following expressions are evaluated identically:

     (x + y * z)    and    (x + (y * z))

When operators in a sequence have equal precedence, evaluation proceeds
from left to right.  For example, each of the following expressions are
evaluated identically:

     (x + y + z)    and    ((x + y) + z)

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