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# It's possible to make the execution of a statement optional, based on the
# result of an expression. Like in other languages, you do this using if-else
# statements:

if 1 < 2:
	print('Took the branch!\n'); # This is executed!

if 1 > 2:
	print('Didn\'t take the branch\n'); # This isn't!

# or you can specify an alternative branch, which is executed when the 
# condition isn't true:

if 1 > 2:
	print('Not executed..\n');
else
	print('Executed!\n');

# You can have multiple statements inside a branch by having them inside a 
# compound statement. Compound statements are statement lists wrapped inside
# curly brackets, like this:

{ print('Hello from a '); print('compound statement!\n'); }

# This way they count as one statement.

if 1 == 1:
	{
		print('Executed\n');
		print('Also executed\n');
	}

# Variables defined inside an if-else statement's branch are defined
# in the parent's context. This implies that variables may or may not
# be defined when you access them, based on which branch is taken.

a = 1;

if a < 2:
	x = 100;

# Now x is defined, but is a were to be higher or equal to 2, it wouldn't
# be defined and the runtime would return an error.
#
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