Tips for golfing in S.I.L.O.S What general tips do you have for golfing in S.I.L.O.S? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to S.I.L.O.S (e.g. "remove comments" is not an answer).

Please post one tip per answer.

S.I.L.O.S can be run here.
Abuse the preprocessor

All SILOS programs can optionally have a macro statement on the second line

Consider the following program... One of my favorite SILOS submissions by betseg.


a=97
def q print z bottle v beer L Line g wall x IntNoLine h the c around
qL 99 zs of v on h g, 99 zs of v.
lbls
q Take one down and pass it c, 
a+1
qx a
qL  zs of v on h g.
qx a
q  zs of v on h g, 
qx a
qL  zs of v.
a-2
if a s
qL Take one down and pass it c, 1 z of v on h g.
qL 1 z of v on h g, 1 z of v.
q Go to h store and buy some more, 99 zs of v on h g.


Look at that savings
Try it out!