This section needs working definitions for "expression" and "statement"

[BillWagner]

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Many of the recent enhancements to C# involve programming with "expressions" instead of "statements". We don't define those terms here in fundamentals. We should.

That distinction is already important. It will be become more important as time goes on.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/program-structure/

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https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/csharp/fundamentals/program-structure/index.md

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@BillWagner

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• ID: 3bdb5e50-2ee1-5d11-a2e8-a9b9348d68e8
• Service: dotnet-csharp
• Sub-service: fundamentals

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