Introduction Terminology Expressions Control Objects Inheritance Technology Summary

Control

C++ provides a number of elementary control structures, directly inherited from C. See slide cc-control.

Control

conditional -- if (b) S1; else S2;
selection -- switch(n) { case n1: S1; break; ... default: ... }
iteration -- while (b) S
looping -- for( int i = 1; i <= MAX; i + + ) S
jumps -- return, break, continue, goto

These include a conditional statement (of which the else part may be omitted), a selection statement (that allows for a default branch), an iteration statement (which is also offered in a reversed form to allow a repeat), a loop statement (consisting of an initialization part, a part to test for termination, and a repetition part to increase the loop variable) and, finally, jumps (including the so much despised goto).