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| author | Jonathan Hansford <dangthrimble@hansfords.net> | 2015-07-24 09:01:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Hansford <dangthrimble@hansfords.net> | 2015-07-24 09:01:34 +0100 |
| commit | 30584b06efd06899f3cb99cffeef5ac61913bf22 (patch) | |
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Additional information on Expression-Oriented Languages
Added the fact that expression statements can form part of larger expressions.
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diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/glossary.md b/src/doc/trpl/glossary.md index bd425145b96..900211200af 100644 --- a/src/doc/trpl/glossary.md +++ b/src/doc/trpl/glossary.md @@ -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 |