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<H3><A NAME="SEC30" HREF="ProgrammersManual_toc.html#TOC30">Simple Statements</A></H3>

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The simplest kind of statement is the <STRONG>null</STRONG> statement, consisting of just
a semicolon:

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;
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It doesn't do anything at all, but it does it very quickly.

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The next simplest statement is also one of the most common, the expression
statement, consisting of any expression followed by a semicolon:

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<VAR>expression</VAR>;
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The given expression is evaluated and the resulting value is ignored.
Commonly-used kinds of expressions for such statements include
assignments and verb calls.  Of course, there's no use for such a
statement unless the evaluation of <VAR>expression</VAR> has some side-effect,
such as changing the value of some variable or property, printing some
text on someone's screen, etc.

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