.. _section-Statements:

Statements
----------

At the highest level, a Flora file consists of a number of *statements*. The following are the main types of Flora statements:

-  :ref:`section-Facts`

-  :ref:`section-Queries and Latent Queries`

-  :ref:`section-Rules`

-  :ref:`section-Directives`

-  :ref:`section-User-Defined Functions`

All Flora statements end with a period. The period must be followed by whitespace, unless it is at the very end of a file or a line. [1]_



.. [1]
   Flora uses period without whitespace for “dot expressions”, discussed in section :ref:`section-Dot Expressions`