programming: how to EQUate a semicolon ?

Hello all,

Using Borlands Tasm32 v5.0 I've got the next code (example) :

foo EQU call bar

and use it like this:

foo,1234

Now I want to suppress the calling of "bar", and thought about just changing 
the "foo" equate with a semi-colon (imagine many calls to "bar" which 
disappear as a result of a single change).  The end result would than look 
like this :

foo EQU ;

;,1234

(after being resolved)

The problem is that I can't seem to find a way to EQUate a semicolon (as its 
regarded to be the start of a comment).  :-(

Does anyone know how its supposed to be done ?

Remarks:

Borlands Tasm32 doesn't have a pre-processor.

I already found a solution using an empty macro, but would like to know if 
it can be done with an EQUate too (just like the other one. it looks 
better/cleaner to me).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser