programming One of the instructions, statements or groups of
statements in a programming language which determines the
sequence of execution of other instructions or statements (the
though some architectures include other constructs such as an
instruction which skips the following instruction depending on
some condition (
PDP?), various kinds of
loop instructions
instructions (Advanced RISC Machine).
Basic control structures (whatever their names in particular
languages) include "if CONDITION then EXPRESSION else
EXPRESSION", "gosub", the suspect "
goto" and the much-feared
"
come from". Other constructs handle errors and
(1997-09-14)