begin statement; statement; ... statement end;
The reserved word begin
opens a begin ... end
statement which joins several statements to one compound
statement.
begin
is defined in ISO 7185 Pascal and supported
by all known Pascal variants.
program BeginDemo; begin if True then WriteLn ('single statement'); if True then begin { clamp statement1 ... } WriteLn ('statement1'); WriteLn ('statement2') end { ... to statement2 } end.