Statements

A statement, the smallest independent computational unit, specifies an action to be performed. In most cases, statements are executed in sequence. The following is a summary of the statements available in C and C++:

• Labeled statements
• Expression statements
• Block statements
• Selection statements
• Iteration statements
• Jump statements
• Declaration statements
• try blocks
• Null statement

Related information

• Data objects and declarations
• Function declarations
• try blocks (C++ only)