Chapter 19. General Control Issues

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Contents

• Boolean Expressions page 431

• Compound Statements (Blocks) page 443

• Null Statements page 444

• Taming Dangerously Deep Nesting page 445

• A Programming Foundation: Structured Programming page 454

• Control Structures and Complexity page 456

Related Topics

• Straight-line code: Chapter 14

• Code with conditionals: Chapter 15

• Code with loops: Chapter 16

• Unusual control structures: Chapter 17

• Complexity in software development: "Software's Primary Technical Imperative: Managing Complexity" in Section 5.2

No discussion of control would be complete unless it went into several general issues that crop up when you think about control constructs. Most of the information in this chapter is detailed and pragmatic. If you're reading for the theory of control structures rather than for the gritty details, concentrate on the historical perspective on structured programming in Section 19.5 and on the relationships between control structures in Section 19.6.