6. Making Decisions
A fundamental feature of any programming language is its capability to make decisions. Decisions were made when executing the looping statements to determine when to terminate a loop. The Objective-C programming language also provides several other decision-making constructs, which are covered in this chapter:
• The if
statement
• The switch
statement
• The conditional
operator
The if
Statement
The Objective-C programming language provides a general decision-making capability in the form of a language construct known as the if
statement. The general format of this statement is shown here:
if ( expression ) program statement
Imagine that you could translate a statement such as “If it is not raining, then I will go swimming” ...
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