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control flow statement (control statement)
subject			fact

control flow statement	has purpose to control the flow of execution of a program
	is a subtopic of Loops and Decision Making
	is a kind of statement
	is a synonym of control statement
statement	is terminated by a semicolon
	should be not more than one line long if possible
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

Kinds of control flow statement :

• break statement (2 kinds, 12 facts)
• continue statement (2 kinds, 13 facts)
• decision making statement (6 kinds, 39 facts) (conditional statement)
• exception statement (2 kinds, 16 facts)
• label statement (4 facts)
• loop statement (3 kinds, 23 facts)
• return statement (2 kinds, 11 facts)