BBC BASIC Programmers' Reference

by Richard Russell, May 2010

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

        REM This is comment line one
        REM This is comment line two
        REM This is comment line three

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

        *| This is comment line one
        *| This is comment line two
        *| This is comment line three

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.

        :\
        \\ This is comment line one
        \\ This is comment line two
        \\ This is comment line three
        \:

Comments of this kind are automatically deleted from a 'compiled' program if any of the crunch options is selected.