 a source line, it is treated
as a newline. The remainder of the line following the backslash will be
processed as an independent line of source code. This allows one to put
multiple statements on a line. This facility is not so useful of itself,
but when coupled with the capability of the DEFINE directive, powerful
multiple statement macros can be constructed (see section on <B><A HREF="#ASSEMBLER_DIRECTIVES">ASSEMBLER
DIRECTIVES</A></B>). Note that when using the statement separator, the
character immedia