The issue that I, and apparently many other people, have is that this is just an unnecessary potential confusion. Why not use another symbol for directives, in

The issue that I, and apparently many other people, have is that this is just an unnecessary potential confusion. Why not use another symbol for directives, instead of overloading comments? Why create the potential for confusion - not everyone that will work with Go is going to be deep in the ecosystem - for example they might be using an editor that mischaracterises the line as a comment. Why create this potential for confusion instead of just using a new symbol ($$, @@, %%, whatever). It would be much clearer to the casual reader that this is something that will have an impact at the tool level.