gnuplot: line break following a comment line

Question

Why this code doesn't work?

plot 
#sin(x),
cos(x)

the error info is

plot 
     ^
"a.plt", line 3: function to plot expected

gnuplot --version

gnuplot 5.0 patchlevel 0

Answer 1

That code doesn't work, because a at the end of a comment line makes gnuplot treat the next line also as comment. See the documentation about comments.