Imperative Program Statement

An Imperative Program Statement is a software statement in a imperative software program (written in an imperative language).

• AKA: Program Statement.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Program Statement Instance in some programming language (such as a Java Program Statement) to being a Program Statement Type (such as a control flow statement).
  • It can range from being a Simple Program Statement to being a Compound Program Statement.
  • It can range from being an Imperative Programming Statement to being a Declarative Programming Statement.
  • It can be a Data Statement, such as: Data Structure Definition Statements, Data Manipulation Statements, Data Access Statements, Assignment Statements, ...
  • It can be a Software Logic Statement, such as Conditional Logic Statements, ...
• Example(s):
  • a Pig Program Statement, a Perl Program Statement.
  • a Conditional Program Statement.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Declarative Program Expression.
  • a Computerized Instruction.
  • a Mathematical Equation.
  • a Mathematical Proof Expression.
• See: Software Expression Side Effect, Source Code, Data Structure Definition Statement, Computer Instruction.

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References

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement_%28computer_science%29
  • In computer programming a statement is the smallest standalone element of an imperative programming language. A program written in such a language is formed by a sequence of one or more statements. A statement will have internal components (e.g., expressions).

    Many languages (e.g. C) make a distinction between statements and definitions, with a statement only containing executable code and a definition declaring an identifier. A distinction can also be made between simple and compound statements; the latter may contain statements as components.

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