13.2.1 Compound statements

Compound statements are a group of statements, separated by semicolons, that are surrounded by the keywords Begin and End. The last statement – before the End keyword – doesn’t need to be followed by a semicolon, although it is allowed. A compound statement is a way of grouping statements together, executing the statements sequentially. They are treated as one statement in cases where Pascal syntax expects one statement, such as in if...then...else statements.