Expression Versus Statement

Question

I\'m asking with regards to c#, but I assume its the same in most other languages.

Does anyone have a good definition of expressions and statements

Answer 1

Here is the summery of one of the simplest answer I found.

originally Answered by Anders Kaseorg

A statement is a complete line of code that performs some action, while an expression is any section of the code that evaluates to a value.

Expressions can be combined “horizontally” into larger expressions using operators, while statements can only be combined “vertically” by writing one after another, or with block constructs.

Every expression can be used as a statement (whose effect is to evaluate the expression and ignore the resulting value), but most statements cannot be used as expressions.

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