comment [<anything>]

This is exactly what it says, a comment. It does nothing. It is useful in scripts for explaining bits of code, adding disclaimers or copyright notices, etc.

There are also several symbolic comments. Both the # and : characters may be used to designate comments. There is no functional difference between any of them. Additionally, EPIC supports C /* */ multiline comments.

These are some comments:

    comment this was the first comment
    # this is a newer comment
    : this is a new comment too, but it isn't used much
    /* this is an elite comment unique to EPIC */

In order to facilitate the use of older scripts (those designed for old or non-EPIC clients), the default behavior is to recognize C-like comments only if they start at the beginning of a line. This allows for ‘/*’ sequence to appear in ECHOed text, etc. This default can be changed to the traditional C behavior by setting COMMENT_HACK off. There is no restriction on where the closing ‘*/’ may appear. Also, unlike C, a command may not begin before a comment, and end after it; the /* */ effectively acts like a line terminator.

Executing an alias whose name begins with a ‘*’ by calling it as ‘/*’ will lose, as it will be interpreted as a comment. The solution here is to limit alias names to alphanumeric characters.