Arthimetic

Overview

MowaLang supports common arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and more advanced expressions like power and increment operators.

All operations work on number type values.

Basic Arthimetic Operations

Compound Assignment

You can simplify expressions using compound operators:

idhi x = 5;
x += 3;      // x = x + 3 → x becomes 8
x -= 2;      // x = x - 2 → x becomes 6
x *= 2;      // x = x * 2 → x becomes 12
x /= 4;      // x = x / 4 → x becomes 3

Increment and Decrement

MowaLang supports both post and pre increment/decrement:

idhi a = 5;

a++;       // Post-increment: value used, then increased
++a;       // Pre-increment: value increased, then used

These also work with -- for decrementing.

Using in Expressions

You can use arithmetic results directly in mowa:

idhi n = 4;
mowa "Square is:", n ** 2;

Or perform in-place updates:

idhi counter = 0;
counter += 1;
mowa "Counter:", counter;

idhi first = "Mowa";
idhi second = "Lang";

idhi result = first + " " + second;
mowa result;

You now know how to perform arithmetic in MowaLang using both basic and advanced expressions. Next, we’ll look at conditionals to control how your code behaves based on different values.