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In computer programming, a language construct is "a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of the programming language", as defined by in the ISO/IEC 2382 standard ( ISO/IEC JTC 1). [1] A term is defined as a "linguistic construct in a conceptual schema language that refers to an entity". [1]
Although the term "language construct" may often used as a synonym for control structure, other kinds of logical constructs of a computer program include variables, expressions, functions, or modules.
Control flow statements (such as
conditionals,
foreach loops,
while loops, etc) are language constructs, not
functions. So while (true)
is a language construct, while add(10)
is a function call.
In
PHP print
is a language construct.
[2]
<?php
print 'Hello world';
?>
is the same as:
<?php
print('Hello world');
?>
In Java a class is written in this format:
public class MyClass {
//Code . . . . . .
}
In C++ a class is written in this format:
class MyCPlusPlusClass {
//Code . . . .
};
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (January 2021) |
In computer programming, a language construct is "a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of the programming language", as defined by in the ISO/IEC 2382 standard ( ISO/IEC JTC 1). [1] A term is defined as a "linguistic construct in a conceptual schema language that refers to an entity". [1]
Although the term "language construct" may often used as a synonym for control structure, other kinds of logical constructs of a computer program include variables, expressions, functions, or modules.
Control flow statements (such as
conditionals,
foreach loops,
while loops, etc) are language constructs, not
functions. So while (true)
is a language construct, while add(10)
is a function call.
In
PHP print
is a language construct.
[2]
<?php
print 'Hello world';
?>
is the same as:
<?php
print('Hello world');
?>
In Java a class is written in this format:
public class MyClass {
//Code . . . . . .
}
In C++ a class is written in this format:
class MyCPlusPlusClass {
//Code . . . .
};