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compound expression
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compound expression	has definition An expression made up of two or more expressions
	has evaluation order based on the precedence of its operand s
	has example x * y * z
	is a subtopic of Statements and Expressions
	is a kind of expression
expression	can be part of an expression
	has type that is the type of its result
	has value called its result, or its return value
	has purpose to compute values or to assign to a variable or to control the flow of execution
	occurs in a context where a value is required
	performs a computation specified by 0 or more operators
	returns a value from its computation
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