=====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 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 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 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.