Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

A COMMON statement or a DECLARE statement occurs after an
executable statement. COMMON and DECLARE statements must
appear before any executable statements. All Basic
statements are executable except the following:
 
    COMMON                     OPTION BASE
    CONST                      REM
    DATA                       SHARED
    DECLARE                    STATIC
    DEFtype                    TYPE
    DIM (for static arrays)    $STATIC and $DYNAMIC