The argument about abusing comments with parser directives is totally bogus. You can create parser directives with extra field names too! Worse, people create c

The argument about abusing comments with parser directives is totally bogus. You can create parser directives with extra field names too! Worse, people create comments anyway using fields like "//" -- but they're much crappier than real comments, since they have to be a valid string value. We gave up a solution to a real problem in favor of a bogus solution to a theoretical problem.