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1.2.1 Notation and Syntax

In Scheme, programs are constructed from expressions. In contrast, Java programs are constructed from statements--program phrases that do not have values--similar to Scheme expressions like (define ...) that return the dummy value (void). But many Java statements contain simple expressions, so let us look briefly at Java expressions.



Corky Cartwright
2000-01-07