>What is surprising is ... we haven't determined the context of a comment and chosen to highlight depending on that context. My syntax highlighter does do this

>What is surprising is ... we haven't determined the context of a comment and chosen to highlight depending on that context. My syntax highlighter does do this, for every language I can think of - and so does essentially every code editor software I can remember using. The most popular editors even have the power to collapse doc comments, and I believe some do by default.