Comments

Comments are used by the programmer to make notes to himself and others. They are important because they make a program easier to understand. A comment can go almost anywhere (except in the middle of a name, inside a string, or in an "include" file name). A comment must be enclosed in backslash (\) characters, unless it is the last item on a line, in which case only the leading backslash is needed. A comment can contain any character except a backslash. Here are some examples:

        begin           \Move down the page

        for X:= -10, 10 \Twenty-one times\ do CrLf(0);