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> > C and C++ have one form of "if" statement, whose syntax is
> >      if ( <condition> ) <statement> [ else <statement> ]
> > (where the () are literal but the [] indicate optional :-)

Steve:

> While you're technically correct, because C/C++ describe a statement as
> either a single line or a block, in my opinion they're really two forms of
> an if statement. [...]

Stop! There is only one form: a block is also an instruction.
The joke is that C and Pascal await at most *one* instruction after
"then" and "else". It is a design blunder, of course, since
most of the time you have more than one instruction. As a consequence,
in C and Pascal, you *must* bracket them inside a block
by {..} or begin..end . It looks like a second form since it
is so frequent, but it isn't. Fortunately most language designs
since 1970 (even Fortran 77 and structured Basic's!) forsee
several instructions for loops and conditions.
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