Block expressions
Sometimes, the necessary steps to figure out an expression's result value just don't fit into a single expression of the sorts we've looked at before. Maybe they need to store a data value for a little while in order to execute efficiently, or are otherwise too complex to be reasonably written in the 1 + ((2 * 57) / 13) style.
That's where block expressions come in. Block expressions look a lot like the body of a function because the body of a function is a block expression. They start with { and end with }. Between those two markers, we can write whatever instructions we need, including doing things like defining variables or other named items.
At the very end of the block should come the expression that produces the final ...
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