--- a/src/parse.y	Wed Jan 17 03:41:39 2001 +0000
+++ b/src/parse.y	Wed Jan 17 18:41:30 2001 +0000
@@ -2786,6 +2786,13 @@
 static void
 safe_fclose (void *f)
 {
+  // XXX FIXME XXX -- comments at the end of an input file are
+  // discarded (otherwise, they would be appended to the next
+  // statement, possibly from the command line or another file, which
+  // can be quite confusing).
+
+  octave_comment_buffer::get_comment ();
+
   if (f)
     fclose (static_cast<FILE *> (f));
 }