# Tech Tuesday: Control Structures (Cont'd)

By [Continuations](https://continuations.com) · 2012-07-17

tech tuesday, programming, control structures

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I was originally planning to write today’s [Tech Tuesday](http://continuations.com/tagged/tech_tuesday) post about how we can define our own words in a programming language.  But then I noticed an important omission in last week’s [post on control structures](http://continuations.com/post/26901427784/tech-tuesday-control-structures).  I didn’t really explain how we can have multiple statements in either a loop or in a branch of program execution.  I just kind of snuck that into the following example:

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*Originally published on [Continuations](https://continuations.com/tech-tuesday-control-structures-contd)*