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Statements

Glish scripts are made up of a series of statements, which are first compiled and then executed sequentially. Enclosing a series of statements inside of braces (``{ ... }") groups them together into a block that is treated syntactically as a single statement. These statement blocks can be used to introduce local scope. (See § 5.9, page .) As in many languages, groups of statements can be collected into functions to provide subroutines. (See Chapter 6, page , and § 7.12, page .) This section describes the various types of statements available in Glish.

Strictly speaking, all Glish statements are terminated with semi-colons (``;"). For the most part, though, the ; needn't be explicitly present, because Glish can figure out when inserting a ; makes sense and does so automatically. (See § 5.11, page .) In the examples that follow, we omit the final ; from statements since, in general, they are not necessary.

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