Whitespace
| wsr1 | = | {whitespace}1+ |
| ws | = | {whitespace} |
| whitespace | = | whitespace-char | comment |
| whitespace-char | = | ‘ ’ | formfeed | newline | carriage-return | horiz-tab | vert-tab |
| end-of-line | = | newline | carriage-return | end-of-file |
Whitespace (non-printing or invisible characters) and comments are used liberally throughout SkookumScript code to separate coding elements, increase readability and to give additional explanation and description.