Statements

As described in the FAUST Manual and FAUST Quick Reference, there are four types of statements in FAUST:

• definition -- define a function in the FAUST language
• fileimport -- incorporate other files (like #include in C)
• declaration -- declare ``meta data'' such as author, copyright, etc.
• documentation -- provide XML-style ``tags'' for in-source documentation

The only required type of statement in a FAUST program is the definition statement, and the only required definition-statement is the one defining process (analogous to main() in C):

  process = faust_expression;

In this tutorial, we will be concerned almost exclusively with definition statements (with some occasional file-imports).