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Additional information on Expression-Oriented Languages

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Added the fact that expression statements can form part of larger
expressions.
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Jonathan Hansford 2015-07-24 09:01:34 +01:00
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@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ syntactic categories: expressions had a value and statements did things.
However, later languages blurred this distinction, allowing expressions to do
things and statements to have a value. In an expression-oriented language,
(nearly) every statement is an expression and therefore returns a value.
Consequently these expression statements can themselves form part of larger
expressions.
[expressions]: glossary.html#expression
[statements]: glossary.html#statement