Control Flow

Definitions

1. The order in which a program's instructions execute, including branches, loops, function calls, exceptions, and early exits. Understanding control flow is essential for debugging and design because the same code can behave very differently depending on how execution moves through it.

   In plain English: The path execution takes through a program's logic.

   Example: "The refactor simplified control flow by replacing several nested conditionals and early returns with one clear state transition path."

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