Comments document the actions or elements of a program. The text of a comment can contain any ASCII character except a nonprinting control character, such as an ESCAPE character. You can place comments anywhere in a program that white space can appear. You signify a comment with braces or with a parenthesis and asterisk pair, as follows: Example: { This is a comment } (* This is also a comment *) VSI Pascal allows you to mix the two symbol pairs in one comment, as follows: { The delimiters of this comment do not match. *) (* VSI Pascal allows you to mix delimiters in this way. } VSI Pascal does not allow you to nest comments. The following example causes a compile-time error because the comment ends at the first closing delimiter (}). Example The following is illegal: (* Comments can not be nested { in VSI Pascal } within a program *)