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# DSL reference: operators
## Operator precedence
Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, highest first.
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Operators Associativity
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() left to right
** right to left
! ~ unary+ unary- & right to left
binary* / // % left to right
binary+ binary- . left to right
<< >> left to right
& left to right
^ left to right
| left to right
< <= > >= left to right
== != =~ !=~ left to right
&& left to right
^^ left to right
|| left to right
? : right to left
= N/A for Miller (there is no $a=$b=$c)
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## Operator and function semantics
* Functions are often pass-throughs straight to the system-standard Go libraries.
* The `min` and `max` functions are different from other multi-argument functions which return null if any of their inputs are null: for `min` and `max`, by contrast, if one argument is absent-null, the other is returned. Empty-null loses min or max against numeric or boolean; empty-null is less than any other string.
* Symmetrically with respect to the bitwise OR, XOR, and AND operators `|`, `^`, `&`, Miller has logical operators `||`, `^^`, `&&`: the logical XOR not existing in Go.
* The exponentiation operator `**` is familiar from many languages.
* The regex-match and regex-not-match operators `=~` and `!=~` are similar to those in Ruby and Perl.