What Is an Statement

∟What Is an Statement

This section describes what is a statement in H language.

A statement is a unit of source code that can be and should be executed by the system as a whole.

Examples of statements are:

1. The statement below is an expression statement, which creates an integer data object represents integer 1:

1;

2. The statement below is an assignment statement, which assigns a reference of the data object created from the expression to variable x:

x = 1;

3. The statement below is a conditional statement, which executes a sub-statement only when the given condition is true:

$if price > 100.00, write("Too expensive for me!");

4. The statement below is a function definition statement, which defines a new function:

$function hello(): {
   write("Hello world!");
};

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What Is an Statement - Updated in 2021, by Dr. Herong Yang