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Revision as of 13:11, 26 August 2016
In computer programming, a statement is the smallest standalone element of an imperative programming language that expresses some action to be carried out.
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Description
A statement is an instruction written in a high-level programming language that commands the computer to perform a specified action.
Computer program
A program written in such a language is formed by a sequence of one or more statements.
Internal components of statements
A statement may have internal components
Statements, definitions, and expressions
Many languages (e.g. C) make a distinction between statements, definitions, and expressions:
- A statement only containing executable code.
- A definition declaring an identifier.
- An expression evaluates to a value only.
Simple versus compound statements
A distinction can also be made between simple and compound statements, with compound statements contain multiple statements as components.
See also
- Computer science
- Computer program
- Computer programming
- Control flow
- Expression (contrast)
- Extensible languages
- Imperative programming
- Programming language
- Programming paradigm
External links
- Statement (computer science) @ Wikipedia
