Numbers

In Blade, all numeric types have just one type — number.

Numbers in Blade are just like you will expect in any programming language. The number type can hold integer, floating-point, real, hexadecimal, octal and binary numbers.

For example:

%> echo 21 # integer
21
%> echo 50.6 # floating-point number
50.6
%> echo -103 # real number
-103
%> echo 0xF1ABC3 # hexadecimal number
15838147
%> echo 0c476 # octal number
318
%> echo 0b1101 # binary number
13

Reference

• Numbers
  • Reference
  • Arithmetic Operations
  • Relational (Comparison) Operators
  • Logical Operator
  • Bitwise Operations
  • Operator Precedence

Arithmetic Operations

Numbers can be used in expressions and all arithmetic operators works on Number just as you would expect in any other language. Parenthesis () can be used to group expression together as well. The operators +, -, *, / work exactly as you expect them to work.

For example:

%> 5 + 6
11
%> 21 + 7 - 8
20
%> 3 * 4 + 5
17
%> 16 / 4
4
%> (30 / 3) * 4
40
%> (2 / 11) * ((21 / 3) + ((4 / 3) - (16 / 5)))
0.9333333333333332

To do floor division and get an integer result (discarding any fractional result) you can use the // operator, to get the remainder of a division, use the % operator. Use the ** operator to calculate powers.

For example:

%> 17 / 5 # normal divison returns a floating-point number
3.4
%> 17 // 5 # floor division discards the fractional part
3
%> 17 % 5 # returns the reminder after the division
2
%> 3 ** 2 # 3 squared
9
%> 2 ** 5 # 2 to the power of 5
32
%> 2 ** 0.5 # 2 raise to power half i.e. square root of 2
1.414213562373095

Relational (Comparison) Operators

Blade also supports greater-than (>) and less-than (<) comparison of Numbers as well as equality comparison using equal-to (==), not-equal-to (!=) as well as complex ones including greater-or-equal-to (>=) and less-or-equal-to (<).

For example:

%> 10 > 5
true
%> 21 < 4
false
%> 12 >= 9
true
%> 56 <= 58
true
%> 31 == 31.0
true
%> 46.000 != 46.00
false

Logical Operator

There are three (3) logical operators in Blade — and, or, !, and all object types including Numbers support all logical operators.

For example:

%> 5 > -1 or 4 < 6
true
%> 11 > 4 and 21 < 18
false
%> !5
false
%> !(51 > 5)
false
%> !(21 < 40 and 11 > 13)
true

Bitwise Operations

Blade supports all standard bitwise operations and they look the same as they appear in any other programming language. If you are coming from a language such as Java, then it's important to note that due to how Blade represents numbers internally, blade does not support the unsigned right shift operator (>>>) and unsigned left shift operator (<<<).

Every bitwise operator except the NOT (~) operator operates on binary information (i.e. on two objects). The operators are as follows:

For example:

%> 10 & 2
2
%> 10 | 4
14
%> 10 ^ 4
14
%> 10 >> 2
2
%> 10 << 2
40
%> ~10
-11

Operator Precedence

The following table lists all operators from highest precedence to lowest in Blade.

Generally, in programming certain operators tend to appear more frequently than others; for example, the assignment operator (=) is far more common than the right shift operator (>>). With that in mind, the rest of the tutorial will focus more on the operators that you're most likely to use on a regular basis and since most other will be used by great men who know exactly what they are doing, we have chosen common syntaxes seen across multiple programming languages enough that this legends will be sure to not need another lesson on how to use them.

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