Alternative+comment+styles

//by Richard Russell, May 2010//

There are three main ways of incorporating multi-line comments (remarks) in your program:

Using the REM statement
code format="bb4w" REM This is comment line one REM This is comment line two REM This is comment line three code Comments of this kind will be automatically removed from a 'compiled' program if the **Remove REMs** crunch option is selected. Therefore you can add as many comments as you like without affecting the size or performance of the executable program

Using the *| command
code format="bb4w" *| This is comment line one *| This is comment line two *| This is comment line three code Comments of this kind are preserved, irrespective of the crunch options. They are useful if, for example, you want to include a comment in a 'crunched' library.

Using line continuation characters
code format="bb4w" :\     \\ This is comment line one \\ This is comment line two \\ This is comment line three \: code Comments of this kind are automatically deleted from a 'compiled' program if **any** of the crunch options is selected.