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control flow statement comparison table

Subject	cause	have syntax	have purpose	have type	see also	is a subtopic of	is a synonym of
break statement	execution to immediately halt the current loop		to terminate a loop or switch-case statement		break	Loops and Decision Making
continue statement	execution to switch immediately to the next iteration of a loop		used within loops to jump to another statement		continue	Loops and Decision Making
decision making statement			to make a decision on which branch of code to follow in a program			Loops and Decision Making	conditional statement
exception statement			to handle exceptions			Exception Handling
label statement		labelName: lineOfCode;	to mark a particular line of code			Loops and Decision Making
loop statement			to execute a section of code more than once			Loops and Decision Making
return statement		return expression	to exit from the current method and jump back to the statement within the calling method that follows the original method call	that is the return type of the method or a subtype of it		Methods

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