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The following sections explain the standard syntactic forms that could be considered to be statements. There is actually no distinction between a statement and an expression in PLOT; we just call an expression a statement if it tends to be used for effect or an expression if it tends to be used for value.
All of these statements are defined within the language by using macros. Their syntax is described here by showing the pattern portion of the macro definition, but the expansion portion is omitted.
Many statements use the syntactic type body. This is a sequence of expressions; they are executed in the order written and the last expression produces the value.
The syntactic type block is identical to body except it encloses the expressions in a block.
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