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1		-	The [[Reserved word\|reserved word]] `begin` marks the start of the definition of the executable portion of a [[Block\|block]]. In conjunction with [[End\|`end`]] it is also used to group [[statement\|statements]] into a so-called “compound statement”.
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3		-	~~[![Note-icon.png](/wiki-images/b/be/Note-icon.png)](</File:Note-icon.png>)~~
	1	+	The [[Reserved word\|reserved word]] `begin` marks the start of the definition of the executable portion of a [[Block\|block]]. In conjunction with [[End\|end]] it is also used to group [[statement\|statements]] into a so-called “compound statement”.
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5		-	Note: In [[Pascal]] a compound statement does not create a new scope. Only blocks do.
	3	+	> Note: In [[Pascal]] a compound statement does not create a new scope. Only blocks do.
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7		-	~~In [[Extended Pascal\|extended Pascal]] `to begin do …` starts the definition of the [[Initialization\|`initialization` part of a module]].~~
	5	+	In [[Extended Pascal\|extended Pascal]] `to begin do …` starts the definition of the [[Initialization\|initialization part of a module]].
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9		-	~~While every `begin` must have a corresponding `end`, not all occurrences of `end` have a corresponding `begin`.~~
	7	+	While every `begin` must have a corresponding `end`, not all occurrences of `end` have a corresponding `begin`.
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11	9		## syntax justification
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13		-	Lots of programming languages use a pair of single characters to indicate boundaries. Typing out the words `begin` and `end` is indeed more cumbersome than writing `{ }`. However, the meaning of such characters is not as obvious as words are.
	11	+	Lots of programming languages use a pair of single characters to indicate boundaries. Typing out the words `begin` and `end` is indeed more cumbersome than writing `{ }`. However, the meaning of such characters is not as obvious as words are.
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15	13		## matching
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17		-	* The source editor of the [[Lazarus IDE]] supports a “find matching begin/end” function.
18		-	* [[vim]] can be configured to support matching Pascal’s `begin`/`end`, too.
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21		-	Keywords: begin — [[Do\|do]] — [[Else\|else]] — [[End\|end]] — [[For\|for]] — [[If\|if]] — [[Repeat\|repeat]] — [[Then\|then]] — [[Until\|until]] — [[While\|while]]
	15	+	- The source editor of the [[Lazarus IDE]] supports a “find matching begin/end” function.
	16	+	- [[vim]] can be configured to support matching Pascal’s `begin`/`end`, too.
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24		-	From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Begin", as the Internet Archive kept it on 2022-11-28. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).
	19	+	From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Begin", as it stood on 2021-08-21 after a change by Kai Burghardt, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).

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