Statements

General

A statement describes one or more actions that need to be carried out by the program.

In Hyper you cannot simply use every expression as a statement. The only expression that you can use as a statement is the procedure call.

Statements can appear inside the body of procedures and constructors.

Kinds of statements

Simple statements

• Procedure call
• Assignments
• Variable declarations
• Jump statements
• Increment/decrement statements

Compound statements

• Conditional statements:
  • 'if' statement
• Looping/iteration statements:
  • 'loop' statement: repetition is bounded by one or more conditions
  • 'iterate' statement: repetition is bounded by a number of iterations

See also

• Expressions
• Procedures
• Constructors