Statements

Simple Statements

• A simple statement is an expression followed by a ; (semicolon)
• The simplest statement of all is the empty statement, which looks like:

  ;

• A line like a = b;; actually contains two statements, an assignment and an empty statement

Compound statements

• A compound statement starts with {, ends with } and contains zero or more statements (either simple or compound)
• The simplest compound statement is:

  { }

• As stated above, a compound statement can include compound statements

  {
  	a_func()
  	{
  		subfunc()
  	}
  	b_func()
  }
  

Statements have no return value

• cannot do something like a = (b = 3;);
• there is no reason to do this