Language construct


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 construct" is often used as a synonym for control structure.

Examples of language constructs

In PHP print is a language construct.

print 'Hello world';
?>

is the same as:

print;
?>

In Java a class is written in this format:
public class MyClass

In C++ a class is written in this format:
class MyCPlusPlusClass ;