JavaScript Design

Chapter 5. JavaScript Structures

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• Statements in Sequential Structures

• Conditional Structures

• Loops

• The with Statement

• The label and continue Statements and Nested Loops

As seen in Chapter 4, “Using Operators and 4,” operators are the building blocks of expressions. In some respects, expressions are the building blocks of statements; however, expressions themselves can be statements, so it would be tautological to say that expressions build statements.

A better way to understand statements can be found in the three basic structures in JavaScript and just about every other programming language. The three structures are as follows:

• Sequences

• Branches

• Loops (iterative)

All statements in JavaScript fall into one of those structural categories, ...