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statement
subject			fact

statement	has definition A syntactic unit that defines a step in the execution of a program
	is a subtopic of Statements and Expressions
	is terminated by a semicolon
	is a kind of syntactic unit
	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 statement :

• control flow statement (23 kinds, 115 facts) (control statement)
• expression statement (5 kinds, 18 facts) - An expression followed by a semicolon
• import statement (10 facts) (import declaration) - A statement that permits using references to other packages without prefixes
• incrementor (4 facts)
• initializer (4 facts)
• long statement (3 facts)
• package statement (13 facts) (package declaration, package declaration) - A statement that declares the name of the package the file defines