What is Flow Control?

Question

The Arcade docs have a blurb about flow control:

Arcade is a portable, lightweight, and secure expression language written for use in the ArcGIS platform. Like other expression languages, it can perform mathematical calculations, manipulate text, and evaluate logical statements. It also supports multi-statement expressions, variables, and flow control statements.

What is flow control? I searched the web for "arcgis" "flow control", but didn't find much.

Thanks.

Bud · Answer

Ah, ok. I’m used to Flow Control being a name for a proprietary technology, like it is in the IBM Maximo world.

MicZatorsky_AEC · Answer

Wikipedia - Flow Control.

That summarizes the concept.  It's not specific to Arcade, but the principle's the same.

AndyAnderson · Answer

If-else statements, also for, continue, and break statements.