Glossary: Compound Statement
A compound statement consists of none or more C++ statements enclosed
within a set of braces: {}. It is an essential concept in C++
and is central to the idea of nesting constructs. For example, the
if statement has the form:-
if ( expression ) statement
which would severely limit its use were it not for the fact that
a compound statement is itself a statement. Consequently
any number of statments can be enclosed within a set of
braces, including other if and compound ones,
and the resulting compound statement used with the if statement.
For example:-
<![CDATA[
if ( a > b ) {
Float_t temp = b;
b = a;
a = temp;
}
]]>
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