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Compound Statements
Table 2-10. Compound Statements
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| SPL | HP C/XL Equivalent |
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| compound-statement: | compound-statement: |
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| BEGIN [statement] [;...] [;] END | "{" [statement] [...] "}" |
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| Semicolons are not part of statements; they | Semicolons are part of statements; they are |
| are used to separate statements. | required terminators. "Extra" semicolons |
| | form null statements, similar to SPL. |
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| Example | Example |
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| BEGIN | { |
| A := 10 ; | A = 10 ; |
| B := 17 OR B := 17 ; | B = 17 ; |
| END | } |
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In HP C/XL, a compound statement may be a block. That is, it may contain
declarations for data that is local to itself.