Declarative Statements☆
Declarative Statements
REM, DIM, DECLARE, OPTION, and DATA statements are called declarative statements.
Declarative statements are valid only if they are just written.
Any declarative statement is processed on compiling, and is not an object of the control.
Example.
The following code let the lower bound of indices of B to be 0 even if the value of A is non-positive.

    20 IF A>0 THEN
    30    OPTION BASE 0
    40 END IF
    50 DIM B(10)

In addition, the scope of a declarative statement is the .program unit.