Added a few sentences about the capability of ack to

preprocess Pascal programs and one restriction that imposes
on programs using it.
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@ -1334,6 +1334,19 @@ Alternate symbol representation.
.sp
The comment delimiters '(*' and '*)' are recognized and treated like '{' and '}'.
The other alternate representations of symbols are not recognized.
.sp
.ti -3
9.~\
Pre-processing.
.sp
If the very first character of a file containing a Pascal
program is the sharp ('#', ASCII 23(hex)) the file is preprocessed
in the same way as C programs.
Lines beginning with a '#' are taken as preprocessor command lines
and not fed to the Pascal compiler proper.
C style comments, /*......*/, are removed by the C preprocessor,
thus C comments inside Pascal programs are also removed when they
are fed through the preprocessor.
.CH "Deviations from the standard"
Ack-Pascal deviates from the (March 1980) standard proposal in the following ways:
.IS