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

Expression

A piece of syntax which can be evaluated to some value. In other words, an expression is an accumulation of expression elements like literals, names, attribute access, operators or function calls which all return a value. In contrast to many other languages, not all language constructs are expressions. There are also statements which cannot be used as expressions, such as while. Assignments are also statements, not expressions.

Statement

A statement is part of a suite (a “block” of code). A statement is either an expression or one of several constructs with a keyword, such as if, while or for.