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Language construct

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A language construct is a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of a programming language.

The term Language Constructs is often used as a synonym for control structure, and should not be confused with a function.

Examples of language constructs

In PHP, for example, print is a language construct. According to [1]

<?php
print 'Hello world';
?>

is the same as:

<?php
print('Hello world');
?>