[rcarr]

I’m sorry, but if it’s using the same starting symbol as a comment, and it’s greyed out in the text editor like a comment, then you can call it whatever you want, but it is a fucking comment. There are a bunch of unused symbol combinations on the keyboard that could have been used, there is absolutely no excuse for it.

[alpaca128]

> it’s using the same starting symbol as a comment

In Java the keywords "public" and "private" use the same starting symbol too, what's your point? Attributes start with "#[", comments with "//" or "#". That's clear enough.

> it’s greyed out in the text editor like a comment

A language isn't responsible for a specific text editor's syntax highlighting.

[rcarr]

> A language isn't responsible for a specific text editor's syntax highlighting.

It’s even greyed out like a comment in the official symfony documentation.