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4.3 Java Statements

In Java, computations are expressed as sequences of statements. The most common form of Java statement is an assignment statement
type var $\,$ = expr ;
where type is a Java type name, var is a Java variable name, and expr is an expression of type compatible with the type of var. The assignment statement
int x = 5;
asserts that ``the variable x has value 5''.



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Corky Cartwright 2003-07-07