Compound Statement in C Programming

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Compound Statements

A compound statement (also called a "block") typically appears as the body of another statement, such as the if statement, for statement, while statement, etc

A Compound statement consists of several individual statements enclosed within a pair of braces { }. The individual statements may themselves be expression statements, compound statements or control statements. Unlike expression statements, a compound statement does not end with a semicolon. A typical Compound statement is given below.

{

pi=3.14;

area=pi*radius*radius;

}

The particular compound statement consists of two assignment-type expression statements.

Example:

Statements Return Statement

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