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C Compound Assignment

The compound-assignment operators combine the simple-assignment operator with another binary operator. Compound-assignment operators perform the operation specified by the additional operator, then assign the result to the left operand. For example, a compound-assignment expression such as

expression1 += expression2

can be understood as

expression1 = expression1 + expression2

However, the compound-assignment expression is not equivalent to the expanded version because the compound-assignment expression evaluates expression1 only once, while the expanded version evaluates expression1 twice: in the addition operation and in the assignment operation.

The operands of a compound-assignment operator must be of integral or floating type. Each compound-assignment operator performs the conversions that the corresponding binary operator performs and restricts the types of its operands accordingly. The addition-assignment ( += ) and subtraction-assignment ( -= ) operators can also have a left operand of pointer type, in which case the right-hand operand must be of integral type. The result of a compound-assignment operation has the value and type of the left operand.

In this example, a bitwise-inclusive-AND operation is performed on n and MASK , and the result is assigned to n . The manifest constant MASK is defined with a #define preprocessor directive.

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Compound assignment operators in Java

Compound-assignment operators provide a shorter syntax for assigning the result of an arithmetic or bitwise operator. They perform the operation on the two operands before assigning the result to the first operand. The following are all possible assignment operator in java:

Implementation of all compound assignment operator

Rules for resolving the Compound assignment operators

At run time, the expression is evaluated in one of two ways.Depending upon the programming conditions:

Examples : Resolving the statements with Compound assignment operators

We all know that whenever we are assigning a bigger value to a smaller data type variable then we have to perform explicit type casting to get the result without any compile-time error. If we did not perform explicit type-casting then we will get compile time error. But in the case of compound assignment operators internally type-casting will be performed automatically, even we are assigning a bigger value to a smaller data-type variable but there may be a chance of loss of data information. The programmer will not responsible to perform explicit type-casting. Let’s see the below example to find the difference between normal assignment operator and compound assignment operator. A compound assignment expression of the form E1 op= E2 is equivalent to E1 = (T) ((E1) op (E2)), where T is the type of E1, except that E1 is evaluated only once.

For example, the following code is correct:

and results in x having the value 7 because it is equivalent to:

Because here 6.6 which is double is automatically converted to short type without explicit type-casting.

Refer: When is the Type-conversion required?

Explanation: In the above example, we are using normal assignment operator. Here we are assigning an int (b+1=20) value to byte variable (i.e. b) that’s results in compile time error. Here we have to do type-casting to get the result.

Explanation: In the above example, we are using compound assignment operator. Here we are assigning an int (b+1=20) value to byte variable (i.e. b) apart from that we get the result as 20 because In compound assignment operator type-casting is automatically done by compile. Here we don’t have to do type-casting to get the result.

Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-15.html#jls-15.26.2

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Compound-Assignment Operators

Compound-assignment operators provide a shorter syntax for assigning the result of an arithmetic or bitwise operator. They perform the operation on the two operands before assigning the result to the first operand.

Compound-Assignment Operators in Java

Java supports 11 compound-assignment operators:

Example Usage

To assign the result of an addition operation to a variable using the standard syntax:

But use a compound-assignment operator to effect the same outcome with the simpler syntax:

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Assignment operators.

Assignment and compound assignment operators are binary operators that modify the variable to their left using the value to their right.

[ edit ] Simple assignment

The simple assignment operator expressions have the form

Assignment performs implicit conversion from the value of rhs to the type of lhs and then replaces the value in the object designated by lhs with the converted value of rhs .

Assignment also returns the same value as what was stored in lhs (so that expressions such as a = b = c are possible). The value category of the assignment operator is non-lvalue (so that expressions such as ( a = b ) = c are invalid).

rhs and lhs must satisfy one of the following:

[ edit ] Notes

If rhs and lhs overlap in memory (e.g. they are members of the same union), the behavior is undefined unless the overlap is exact and the types are compatible .

Although arrays are not assignable, an array wrapped in a struct is assignable to another object of the same (or compatible) struct type.

The side effect of updating lhs is sequenced after the value computations, but not the side effects of lhs and rhs themselves and the evaluations of the operands are, as usual, unsequenced relative to each other (so the expressions such as i = ++ i ; are undefined)

Assignment strips extra range and precision from floating-point expressions (see FLT_EVAL_METHOD ).

In C++, assignment operators are lvalue expressions, not so in C.

[ edit ] Compound assignment

The compound assignment operator expressions have the form

The expression lhs @= rhs is exactly the same as lhs = lhs @ ( rhs ) , except that lhs is evaluated only once.

[ edit ] References

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Operator precedence

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What are operators in Python?

Operators are special symbols in Python that carry out arithmetic or logical computations. The value that the operator operates on is called the operand. For example: 2+3 = 5 . Here, + is the operator that performs addition.

There are many operators in Python, some of them are:

Compound assignment operator

Identity operator.

However, in this shot, we will only be talking about the compound assignment operator and the identity operator.

The compound assignment operator performs the operation of the binary operator on both operands, and stores the result of that operation in the left operand (must be a modifiable value).

The above expression is equivalent to a = a+10 . In the same way, we can subtract, multiply, and divide a number.

The identity operator is used to compare objects

z returns False because x is not the same object as y.

v returns True because x is not the same object as y.

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1.5. Compound Assignment Operators ¶

Compound assignment operators are shortcuts that do a math operation and assignment in one step. For example, x += 1 adds 1 to x and assigns the sum to x. It is the same as x = x + 1 . This pattern is possible with any operator put in front of the = sign, as seen below.

The most common shortcut operator ++ , the plus-plus or increment operator, is used to add 1 to the current value; x++ is the same as x += 1 and the same as x = x + 1 . It is a shortcut that is used a lot in loops. If you’ve heard of the programming language C++, the ++ in C++ is an inside joke that C has been incremented or improved to create C++. The -- decrement operator is used to subtract 1 from the current value: y-- is the same as y = y - 1 . These are the only two double operators; this shortcut pattern does not exist with other operators. Run the following code to see these shortcut operators in action!

Run the code below to see what the ++ and shorcut operators do. Click on the Show Code Lens button to trace through the code and the variable values change in the visualizer. Try creating more compound assignment statements with shortcut operators and work with a partner to guess what they would print out before running the code.

On the exam you can use x++ or ++x to add one to the value of x . These two shortcuts only have different results if you assign the value of x to another variable as in int y = ++x; (where the value of x is incremented before y is set to it) or int y = x++; (where y is set to a copy of x’s value before x is incremented). The AP exam will never use a shortcut in an assignment statement, so you don’t need to worry about the difference between ++x or x++ .

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1-5-2: What are the values of x, y, and z after the following code executes?

1-5-3: What are the values of x, y, and z after the following code executes?

1.5.1. Code Tracing Challenge and Operators Maze ¶

Use paper and pencil or the question response area below to trace through the following program to determine the values of the variables at the end.

Code Tracing is a technique used to simulate a dry run through the code or pseudocode line by line by hand as if you are the computer executing the code. Tracing can be used for debugging or proving that your program runs correctly or for figuring out what the code actually does.

Trace tables can be used to track the values of variables as they change throughout a program. To trace through code, write down a variable in each column or row in a table and keep track of its value throughout the program. Some trace tables also keep track of the output and the line number you are currently tracing.

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1-5-4: Write your trace table for x, y, and z here showing their results after each line of code.

After doing this challenge, play the Operators Maze game . See if you and your partner can get the highest score!

1.5.2. Summary ¶

Compound assignment operators (+=, -=, *=, /=, %=) can be used in place of the assignment operator.

The increment operator ( ++ ) and decrement operator ( -- ) are used to add 1 or subtract 1 from the stored value of a variable. The new value is assigned to the variable.

The use of increment and decrement operators in prefix form (i.e., ++x) and inside other expressions (i.e., arr[x++]) is outside the scope of this course and the AP Exam.

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Coalescing operator and Compound assignment operator in C#

Hello! Today i want to ask you this: Have you ever used a Null Coalescing operator or even a Compound assignment operator in C# ?

Until today i had never heard about this things, so i want to share with you what i learned about and how it can be applied to your code.

The problem

Let's say you want to give a given variable the value of null.

Now, if we want to print the value on the screen it will accuse the following error:

Let's see how to get around this...

The old way 👎

The old and 'commom way' to check this is using if else operators like this:

We see that in this case we cannot place a default value to x and y operators. So we display on screen when it is null.

The Null Coalescing operator way 👌

First, a null coalescing operator (??) is used to define a default value for nullable value types or reference types. It returns the left-hand operand if the operand is not null, otherwise, it returns the right operand.

So it's mainly used to simplify checking for null values and also assign a default value to a variable when the value is null.

Using our example:

This way i can make a default value on x and y when one of them is null. And so, we can print on screen!

But can it be better?

The Compound assignment operator way 😎

The Compound assignment operator (??=) was introduced on C# 8.0 and has made our job easier. It simply reduces what we have to write and has the same result.

Instead of writing double x = x ?? 0.0; We can just write double x ??= 0.0;

Simple, right?

Hope you enjoyed this post, it's simple but it's something worth sharing for me.

Thanks for your time!😊

Links: https://dzone.com/articles/nullable-types-and-null-coalescing-operator-in-c

https://dev.to/mpetrinidev/the-null-coalescing-operator-in-c-8-0-4ib4

https://docs.microsoft.com/pt-br/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/null-coalescing-operator

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Now that we've talked about operators. Let's talk about something called the compound assignment operator and I'm going make one little change here in case you're wondering if you ever want to have your console take up the entire window you come up to the top right-hand side here you can undock it into a separate window and you can see that it takes up the entire window.

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So just a little bit more room now.

Additionally, I have one other thing I'm going to show you in the show notes. I'm going to give you access to this entire set of assignment operators but we'll go through a few examples here. I'm going to use the entire window just to make it a little bit easier to see.

Let's talk about what assignment is. Now we've been using assignment ever since we started writing javascript code. You're probably pretty used to it. Assignment is saying something like var name and then setting up a name

And that is assignment the equals represents assignment.

Now javascript gives us the ability to have the regular assignment but also to have that assignment perform tasks. So for example say that you want to add items up so say that we want to add up a total set of grades to see the total number of scores. I can say var sum and assign it equal to zero.

And now let's create some grades.

I'm going to say var gradeOne = 100.

and then var gradeTwo = 80.

Now with both of these items in place say that we wanted to add these if you wanted to just add both of them together you definitely could do something like sum = (gradeOne + gradeTwo); and that would work.

However, one thing I want to show you is, there are many times where you don't have gradeOne or gradeTwo in a variable. You may have those stored in a database and then you're going to loop through that full set of records. And so you need to be able to add them on the fly. And so that's what a compound assignment operator can do.

Let's use one of the more basic ones which is to have the addition assignment.

Now you can see that sum is equal to 100.

Then if I do

If we had 100 grades we could simply add them just like that.

Essentially what this is equal to is it's a shorthand for saying something like

sum = sum + whatever the next one is say, that we had a gradeThree, it would be the same as doing that. So it's performing assignment, but it also is performing an operation. That's the reason why it's called a compound assignment operator.

Now in addition to having the ability to sum items up, you could also do the same thing with the other operators. In fact literally, every one of the operators that we just went through you can use those in order to do this compound assignment. Say that you wanted to do multiplication you could do sum astrix equals and then gradeTwo and now you can see it equals fourteen thousand four hundred.

This is that was the exact same as doing sum = whatever the value of sum was times gradeTwo. That gives you the exact same type of process so that is how you can use the compound assignment operators. And if you reference the guide that is included in the show notes. You can see that we have them for each one of these from regular equals all the way through using exponents.

Then for right now don't worry about the bottom items. These are getting into much more advanced kinds of fields like bitwise operators and right and left shift assignments. So everything you need to focus on is actually right at the top for how we're going to be doing this. This is something that you will see in a javascript code. I wanted to include it, so when you see it you're not curious about exactly what's happening.

It's a great shorthand syntax for whenever you want to do assignment but also perform an operation at the same time.

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