The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition

9. Statements

A programmer is a machine for turning caffeine into code.

– A programmer

• Introduction

• Statement Summary

• Declarations as Statements

• Selection Statements

if Statements; switch Statements; Declarations in Conditions

• Iteration Statements

Range-for Statements; for Statements; while Statements; do Statements; Loop exit

• goto Statements

• Comments and Indentation

• Advice

9.1. Introduction

C++ offers a conventional and flexible set of statements. Basically all that is either interesting or complicated is found in expressions and declarations. Note that a declaration is a statement and that an expression becomes a statement when you add a semicolon at its end.

Unlike an expression, a statement does not have a value. Instead, ...