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Expression Statements

The simplest kinds of statements in JavaScript are expressions that have side effects. Assignment statements are one major category of expression statements. For example:

greeting = "Hello " + name;
i *= 3;

The increment and decrement operators, ++ and –, are related to assignment statements. These have the side effect of changing a variable value, just as if an assignment had been performed:

counter++;

Function calls are another major category of expression statements. For example:

alert(greeting);
window.close();