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decision making statement (conditional statement)
subject			fact

decision making statement	is a synonym of conditional statement
	has purpose to make a decision on which branch of code to follow in a program
	is a subtopic of Loops and Decision Making
	is a kind of control flow 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 decision making statement :

• if statement (1 kind, 9 facts)
• if-else statement (1 kind, 10 facts)
• switch-case statement (9 facts) (case statement)
• try-catch-finally statement (7 facts)