VMS Help PASCAL, Statements, Compound  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  A compound statement groups a series of statements so that  they
  can  appear  anywhere  that  language  syntax calls for a single
  statement.

  Syntax:

     BEGIN
     {statement};...
     END

  The 'statement' is any Compaq Pascal statement, including  other
  compound statements.