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Multiple operators with different precedence

Reports binary expressions that consist of different operators without parentheses.

Such expressions can be less readable due to different precedence rules of operators.

Example:

fun foo(b: Boolean?, i: Int?) { val x = b ?: i == null // evaluated as `(b ?: i) == null` val y = i ?: 0 + 1 // evaluated as `i ?: (0 + 1)` }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

UnclearPrecedenceOfBinaryExpression
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Kotlin | Style issues

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Multiple operators with different precedence inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report even obvious cases

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection UnclearPrecedenceOfBinaryExpression

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025