It can be an incredible waste of time to code based on an outdated comment, especially since changes made after a method is created are likely both subtle and r

It can be an incredible waste of time to code based on an outdated comment, especially since changes made after a method is created are likely both subtle and required by a new design version. That said, I wonder why ie. JavaDoc doesn't raise at least an informational message when a code block has changed, but its comment has not. Are there IDE features that support this?