Question

Which of the following meanings of the plus sign, +, are built-in to the language (and/or standard libraries or classes that we have been using with the language)?

A. Numeric subtraction
B. Numeric addition
C. string concatenation
D. The logical "or" operation

Answer 1

Numeric Addition

Step-by-step explanation:

Literally, the + sign is an arithmetic operator used to perform addition operation between numeric datatypes (integer, float, decimal, double, long integer, etc...)

Its default built in function of the plus is sign is to add variables, constants and/or expressions.

The plus sign is used as follows;

a = 5;

b = 3;

c = a + b

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a + b = 5 + 3 = 8

8 will be saved in variable c. This is only possible using the plus sign.

The plus sign also has other function such as string concatenation but this function is language dependent (i.e. some programming languages do not use + for string concatenation).

Conclusively, the built in function of the plus sign is for numeric addition