ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition By Colin Moock
Chapter 6. Statements
Conceptually speaking, there are five core types of statements:
Statements that control the execution flow of a program
loops
conditionals
ifFrameLoaded
Statements that declare variables
var
set
Statements that declare, call, and return values from functions
function
function call
return
Statements that deal with objects
with
for . . . in
Statements that represent a data value
any expression (especially expressions with side effects)
These informal categories help us understand what we can tell the interpreter to do using statements. At first glance, the list may seem fairly limited. However, we'll see that there are many variations of conditionals and loops and that there are thousands of things we can do with function calls. First, let's see how statements are formed.
