Pragmats (The GNU Algol 68 Compiler)

### 4.2 Pragmats ¶

Pragmats (also known as pragmas in other programming languages) are directives and annotations for the compiler, and their usage impacts the compilation process in several ways. A pragmat starts with either `pragmat` or `pr` and finished with either `pragmat` or `pr` respectively. Pragmats cannot be nested. For example:

    pr include "foo.a68" pr

The interpretation of pragmats is compiler-specific. This chapter documents the pragmats supported by GCC.