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# Expressions

A Rust program is (mostly) made up of a series of statements:

    fn main() {
        // statement
        // statement
        // statement
    }

There are a few kinds of statements in Rust. The most common two are declaring a variable binding, and using a `;` with an expression:

    fn main() {
        // variable binding
        let x = 5;

        // expression;
        x;
        x + 1;
        15;
    }

Blocks are expressions too, so they can be used as values in assignments. The last expression in the block will be assigned to the place expression such as a local variable. However, if the last expression of the block ends with a semicolon, the return value will be `()`.

    fn main() {
        let x = 5u32;

        let y = {
            let x_squared = x * x;
            let x_cube = x_squared * x;

            // This expression will be assigned to `y`
            x_cube + x_squared + x
        };

        let z = {
            // The semicolon suppresses this expression and `()` is assigned to `z`
            2 * x;
        };

        println!("x is {:?}", x);
        println!("y is {:?}", y);
        println!("z is {:?}", z);
    }