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Many expressions consist of operands that are manipulated by operators. JavaFX Script offers operators found also in Java plus a few operators that are unique to the newer language. Table 1 presents the list of operators found in the JavaFX Script language reference document (draft) -- note that operators are grouped by precedence with the highest precedence group at the top.
| Priority | Operator | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | function()()newclass name { attribute initializers } |
JavaFX function Expression in brackets Instantiate a new object Instantiate and initialize a new object via an object literal |
| 2 | ++ (suffixed)-- (suffixed)
|
Post-increment assign Post-decrement assign |
| 3 | ++ (prefixed)-- (prefixed)notsizeofreverseindexof--> |
Pre-increment assign Pre-decrement assign Logical negation Size of a sequence Reverse a sequence Index of a sequence element Tween |
| 4 | */mod |
Multiplication Division Remainder -- you can also use % in the Preview SDK, but shouldn't
|
| 5 | +- |
Addition Subtraction |
| 6 | ==!=<<=>>= |
Equality Inequality Less than Less than or equal to Greater than Greater than or equal to |
| 7 | instanceofas |
Type checking Cast |
| 8 | or |
Logical OR |
| 9 | and |
Logical AND |
| 10 | +=-=*=/=%= |
Add and assign Subtract and assign Multiply and assign Divide and assign Remainder and assign -- this operator won't be present in SDK 1.0 |
| 11 | = |
Assignment |
Although not appearing in the table, I also consider insert and delete to be operators.
JavaFX Script lets you create some interesting expressions. For example, you can take advantage of the if-based conditional expression to assign one of two values to a variable during its declaration. This makes the conditional expression similar
to Java's (a < b) ? a : b construct, as demonstrated in the following script:
var age = 65;
var receivingPension = if (age >= 65) then true else false; // then is optional
java.lang.System.out.println (receivingPension) // Output: true
In this example, a conditional expression determines if an individual is eligible to receive pension based on a retirement age of 65. Of course, a person cannot receive a pension if they're dead. Therefore, to make the previous script somewhat more accurate, the following script uses a Boolean expression to make sure that the person receives pension if they're 65 or older, and not also dead:
var age = 65;
var dead = true;
var receivingPension = if (age >= 65 and not dead) true else false;
java.lang.System.out.println (receivingPension) // Output: false
Note that JavaFX Script replaces Java's &&, ||, and ! operators with its more readable and, or, and not equivalents. This makes scripts less confusing to those who are not familiar with Java. JavaFX Script also makes other operator-oriented
changes, which are described in the aforementioned language reference document.
If the conditional expression doesn't return a value, it cannot be assigned to a variable. For example, var a = 1; var b = if (a == 1) then System.out.println ("a == 1") else System.out.println ("a != 1"); doesn't compile because System.out.println() doesn't return a value that can be assigned to b.
There's something else you need to know about conditional expressions: The expression following the conditional expression's
then-part or else-part must be surrounded with braces (it must be a block) if the expression begins with a keyword. For example,
braces are required in var a = 1; if (a == 1) then { var b = 2 } because the expression following the then-part begins with keyword var.
For iteration-based logic, JavaFX Script supports while-based and for-based loop expressions. The former loop expression is practically identical to its equivalent Java statement, except for
JavaFX Script requiring this expression's body to always be delimited with brace characters. The following script demonstrates
a simple while-based loop expression:
var i = 0;
while (i < 10) { java.lang.System.out.println (i++) }
The for-based loop expression is similar to the enhanced for loop introduced by J2SE 5.0. This loop expression iterates over the elements from JavaFX Script's only data structure, the array-like
sequence (an ordered list of objects). Although I discuss sequences in more detail later, the following script illustrates a sequence
being accessed via this expression:
var nums = [5, 7, 3, 9];
var avg =
{
var sum = 0;
for (a in nums) sum += a;
sum / sizeof nums
}
java.lang.System.out.println ("Average is {avg} ") // Output: Average is 6
This script calculates and outputs the average of an integers sequence, which is specified as a comma-delimited list of integers
surrounded by square brackets. It demonstrates the JavaFX Script capability for assigning a block of variable declarations
and expressions -- a block expression -- to a variable. The value of this block expression's final expression, sum /= sizeof nums, is assigned to avg.
The sizeof operator returns the number of elements in its sequence operand. If the operand is null, sizeof returns 0.
To break out of a loop, or to continue with the next loop iteration, you can use JavaFX Script's break and continue expressions. Although they support the same break and continue keywords as their Java counterparts, these expressions do not support labels. The following script demonstrates the break
expression (the braces surrounding break are required):
var x = [1..10];
for (a in x)
{
java.lang.System.out.println (a);
if (a == 5) { break }
}
Instead of using a comma-delimited list of integers, the previous script declares a sequence via a range expression. This
expression uses two integers separated by .. notation to identify a list of values forming an arithmetic series. Although the default interval between successive values
is 1, this interval can be changed by specifying the step keyword followed by a different interval value:
java.lang.System.out.println ([1..10 step 2]); // a sequence of all the odd integers from 1 through 9
java.lang.System.out.println ([10..1 step -2]) // a sequence of all the even integers from 10 through 2
To return a value from a function, you can use JavaFX Script's return expression, which uses the same return keyword as its Java counterpart. However, this keyword isn't required; you can specify an expression by itself, and its value
will return from the function. The following script demonstrates this capability: