The terminator

The terminator ends the command, and can be either a semicolon or the absence of a continuation mark.

If you use the semicolon as the terminator, do not close it in quotation marks or embed it in a comment. Everything to the right of the semicolon is ignored.

For example, if you code:

PARM TEST (TRACE); PARM - 
GRAPHICS (CHAIN(TN))/*COMMENT*/ - 
PRINT ... 
REPRO ...

the characters following the semicolon terminator are ignored. Because a continuation mark (hyphen) appears at the end of the second record, the PRINT command is also ignored. The first PARM command and the REPRO command are the only recognized commands.