| .Fundamental Building Blocks: BASIC Statements. |
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 Fundamental Building Blocks Statements Contents Index |
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| Language Elements: BASIC Statements |
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| A BASIC statement is either executable or nonexecutable. |
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| ž An executable statement advances the flow of a program's logic by |
| telling the program what to do next (for example, to read input, |
| write output, add two numbers together and store the result in a |
| variable). |
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| ž A nonexecutable statement does not advance the flow of a program's |
| logic. Instead, nonexecutable statements perform tasks such as |
| allocating storage for variables, declaring and defining variable |
| types, and designating variables to be shared among procedures. |
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| The following BASIC statements are nonexecutable: |
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| REM or ' DIM (static arrays only) |
| COMMON OPTION BASE |
| CONST SHARED |
| DATA STATIC |
| DECLARE TYPE...END TYPE |
| DEFtype |
