comments

By default, anything following a `#' will be treated as a comment and ignored. This holds for data files as well as for command script files loaded with the load command. This default can be changed with the set comment command. Sometimes a comment character needs to be taken literally in a script file. The comment character will be accepted as data if it follows the `\' escape operator, i.e. `\#', or, in the fitting mode only, whenever the comment character is somewhere inside quotes or parentheses. The comment character is always accepted literally when typed on the interactive command line.

set comment, read, load, show comment, exec