MACROMEDIA FLEX-FLEX ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 92

See also
& (bitwise AND)
(bitwise OR assignment)
() (parentheses)
Availability
Flash Player 4.
Usage
(expression1 [, expression2])
(expression1, expression2)
function(parameter1,..., parameterN)
Parameters
expression1, expression2
The function to be performed on the contents of the parentheses.
function
parameter1...parameterN
parameters to the function outside the parentheses.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Operator; performs a grouping operation on one or more parameters, performs sequential
evaluation of expressions, or surrounds one or more parameters and passes them as parameters to
a function outside the parentheses.
Usage 1: Controls the order in which the operators execute in the expression. Parentheses override
the normal precedence order and cause the expressions within the parentheses to be evaluated
first. When parentheses are nested, the contents of the innermost parentheses are evaluated before
the contents of the outer ones.
Usage 2: Evaluates a series of expressions, separated by commas, in sequence, and returns the
result of the final expression.
Usage 3: Surrounds one or more parameters and passes them as parameters to the function
outside the parentheses.
For more information, see
Example
Usage 1: The following statements show the use of parentheses to control the order in which
expressions are executed (the value of each expression is written to the log file):
trace((2+3)*(4+5));//writes 45
trace(2+(3*(4+5)));//// writes 29
trace(2+(3*4)+5);// writes 19
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, ,
^ (bitwise XOR) ^= (bitwise XOR assignment)
,
~ (bitwise NOT)
Numbers, strings, variables, or text.
A series of parameters to execute before the results are passed as
"Operator precedence and associativity" on page
, ,
| (bitwise OR) |=
32.